Book

General history of the things of New Spain: Florentine codex: book 12 -- the conquest of Mexico

The School of American Research and the University of Utah (14) (13) • Published In 1955 • Pages: xx, 122 , 22 plates

By: Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590, Anderson, Arthur J. O, Dibble, Charles E..

Abstract
The Franciscan missionary Sahagún presaged modern ethnography when, beginning the 1540s, he initiated a project to better comprehend pre-Conquest Aztec ideology and culture, interviewing elderly elites and having the data transcribed and illustrated by multilingual native scholars over a period of some thirty years. This is an English language translation of the original side-by-side Spanish and Nahuatl text. It describes the Spanish conquest up to the fall of Tenochtitlan, from the perspective of the Aztec informants.
Subjects
Settlement patterns
Community structure
Revelation and divination
Disasters
Warfare
Aftermath of combat
Religious and educational structures
External relations
Chief executive
Mythology
Classes
Aftermath of combat
Peacemaking
Magicians and diviners
Organized ceremonial
Burial practices and funerals
culture
Aztecs
HRAF PubDate
2017
Region
Middle America and the Caribbean
Sub Region
Central Mexico
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Type
Missionary
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
Field Date
1540-1579
Coverage Date
1519-1521
Coverage Place
Valley of Mexico
Notes
Fray Bernadino de Sahagún ; translated from the Aztec, with notes and illustrations, by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
Uniform title: Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España. English & Aztec
LCCN
51002409
LCSH
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities/Aztecs/Natural history--Mexico/Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540/Mexico--Antiquities