Codex Chimalpahin, Volume 2: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico (Volume 226) - Hardcover

Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Don Domingo De San Anton Munon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806129506 ISBN 13: 9780806129501

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997

Synopsis

The Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about whom we have much knowledge. It also affords a firsthand indigenous perspective on the Nahua past, present, and future in a changing colonial milieu. Moreover, Chimalpahin’s sources, a rich variety of ancient and contemporary records, give voice to a culture long thought to be silent and vanquished.

Volume Two of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records, it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extensive period. Included are the Exercicio quotidiano of Sahagun, for which Chimalpahin was the copyist, some unsigned Nahuatl materials, and a letter by Juan de San Antonio of Texcoco as well as a store of information about Nahua women, religion, ritual, concepts of conquest, and relations with Europeans.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur J. O. Anderson (1907–1996) was renowned for his and Charles E.Dibble's translation of the Florentine Codex by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún.

Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History Emerita at Tulane University and coeditor of Indian Women of Early Mexico and Chimalpahin’s Conquest: A Nahua Historian’s Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara’s “La Conquista de México.”

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0806129506
• ISBN 13: 9780806129501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 258