Lori Boornazian Diel

The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book offers the first scholarly analysis of the entire Codex Mexicanus, an enigmatic sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript, and shows how it helped the Aztec adapt to life in colonial Mexico

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 207mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 889g
• ISBN-13: 9781477316733
• ISBN-10: 1477316736
• Artikelnr.: 52414173

Autorenporträt

By Lori Boornazian Diel

Inhaltsangabe

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