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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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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