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.

HRAF PubDate

2017

Region

Middle America and the Caribbean

Sub Region

Central Mexico

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Missionary-5

Analyst

Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958

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