The Codex Mexicanus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Codex Mexicanus write by Lori Boornazian Diel. This book was released on 2018-12-12. The Codex Mexicanus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript, known as the Codex Mexicanus, includes records pertaining to the Aztec and Christian calendars, European medical astrology, a genealogy of the Tenochca royal house, and an annals history of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan and early colonial Mexico City, among other topics. Though filled with intriguing information, the Mexicanus has long defied a comprehensive scholarly analysis, surely due to its disparate contents. In this pathfinding volume, Lori Boornazian Diel presents the first thorough study of the entire Codex Mexicanus that considers its varied contents in a holistic manner. She provides an authoritative reading of the Mexicanus’s contents and explains what its creation and use reveal about native reactions to and negotiations of colonial rule in Mexico City. Diel makes sense of the codex by revealing how its miscellaneous contents find counterparts in Spanish books called Reportorios de los tiempos. Based on the medieval almanac tradition, Reportorios contain vast assortments of information related to the issue of time, as does the Mexicanus. Diel masterfully demonstrates that, just as Reportorios were used as guides to living in early modern Spain, likewise the Codex Mexicanus provided its Nahua audience a guide to living in colonial New Spain.
Portraying the Aztec Past
Portraying the Aztec Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraying the Aztec Past write by Angela Herren Rajagopalan. This book was released on 2018-12-12. Portraying the Aztec Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325–1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and mestizo tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) of the sixteenth century continued to use pre-Hispanic pictorial writing systems to record information about native culture. Three of these manuscripts—Codex Boturini, Codex Azcatitlan, and Codex Aubin—document the origin and migration of the Mexica people, one of several indigenous groups often collectively referred to as “Aztec.” In Portraying the Aztec Past, Angela Herren Rajagopalan offers a thorough study of these closely linked manuscripts, articulating their narrative and formal connections and examining differences in format, style, and communicative strategies. Through analyses that focus on the materials, stylistic traits, facture, and narrative qualities of the codices, she places these annals in their historical and social contexts. Her work adds to our understanding of the production and function of these manuscripts and explores how Mexica identity is presented and framed after the conquest.
The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts
The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts write by Maarten Jansen. This book was released on 2010-10-15. The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.
The Codex Borgia
The Codex Borgia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Codex Borgia write by Gisele Díaz. This book was released on 2013-01-23. The Codex Borgia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First republication of remarkable repainting of great Mexican codex, dated to ca. AD 1400. 76 large full-color plates show gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and abstract designs. Introduction.
Texcoco
Texcoco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Texcoco write by Jongsoo Lee. This book was released on 2014-02-14. Texcoco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with current debates that derive from differences in the way scholars view abundant and diverse iconographic and alphabetic sources, and proposes a new look at Texcocan history and culture from different academic disciplines. Contributors address some of the most pressing issues in Texcocan studies and bring new ones to light: the role of Texcoco in the Aztec empire, the construction and transformation of Prehispanic history in the colonial period, the continuity and transformation of indigenous culture and politics after the conquest, and the nature and importance of iconographic and alphabetic texts that originated in this city-state, such as the Codex Xolotl, the Mapa Quinatzin, and Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s chronicles. Multiple scholarly perspectives and methodological approaches offer alternative paradigms of research and open a needed dialogue among disciplines—social, political, literary, and art history, as well as the history of science. This comprehensive overview of Prehispanic and colonial Texcoco will be of interest to Mesoamerican scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
