Eggggzackly. No one who knows much about medieval history reads Lea anymore. But our FRiend here apparently does.
Even secular historians dismiss him. Edward Peters, who held the Lea chair at Penn (if memory serves me correctly), wrote his books on medieval juridical issues as a corrective to Lea.
Henry Kamen wrote a well-research study of the Spanish Inquisition in which he tries to lay to rest many of the falsehoods about that institution. That it was, even under Torquemada, less savage than the English Star Chamber is a fact that has never found a home in American education. It became part and parcel of the Black Legend, and while it cast a pall over thought in Spain, it was not the cause of Spain’s decadence. That, I guess is the Hidalgo culture of Castile, But, of course, even that is hardly the real truth. My own view is that Spain inherited and retained too much of the old Arab culture as did the Kingdom of the two Sicilies.