The Codex Mexicanus : : A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain / / Lori Boornazian Diel.
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 manuscri...
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Diel, Lori Boornazian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Codex Mexicanus : A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain / Lori Boornazian Diel. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2018 1 online resource (228 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Codex Mexicanus and Its World of Production -- Chapter 2 Time and Religion in the Aztec and Christian Worlds -- Chapter 3 Astrology, Health, and Medicine in New Spain -- Chapter 4 Divine Lineage: A Genealogy of the Tenochca Royal House -- Chapter 5 A History of the Mexica People: From Aztlan to Tenochtitlan to New Spain -- Chapter 6 Conclusions and an Epilogue -- Appendix 1 Pictorial Catechism, Codex Mexicanus, pages 52–54 -- Appendix 2 Zodiac Text Transcription, Codex Mexicanus, pages 24–34 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Aztecs History 16th century. Aztecs-History-16th century. Codex Mexicanus. Indians of Mexico History 16th century. Indians of Mexico-History-16th century. Manuscripts, Mexican Mexico Facsimiles. Manuscripts, Mexican-Mexico-Facsimiles. Mexico-History-Spanish colony, 1540-1810. Mexico-History-To 1810. New Spain-History-16th century. ART / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110745306 https://doi.org/10.7560/316733 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477316740 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477316740/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Codex Mexicanus and Its World of Production -- Chapter 2 Time and Religion in the Aztec and Christian Worlds -- Chapter 3 Astrology, Health, and Medicine in New Spain -- Chapter 4 Divine Lineage: A Genealogy of the Tenochca Royal House -- Chapter 5 A History of the Mexica People: From Aztlan to Tenochtitlan to New Spain -- Chapter 6 Conclusions and an Epilogue -- Appendix 1 Pictorial Catechism, Codex Mexicanus, pages 52–54 -- Appendix 2 Zodiac Text Transcription, Codex Mexicanus, pages 24–34 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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