The Codex Mendoza Arranging The Conquests Section I Of The Codez Mendoza

Author : Jorge Gómez Tejada,Davide Domenici,Chiara Grazia,David Buti,Laura Cartechini,Francesca Rosi,Francesca,Virginia María Lladó-Buisán,Aldo Romani,Antonio Sgamelloti,Constanza Miliani,B. C. Barker-Benfield,Diana Magaloni,Mary Ellen Miller,Claudia Brittenham,Frances F. Berdan,Barbara E. Mundy,Daniela Bleichmar,Todd P. Olson,Carmen Fernández-Salvador,Joanne Harwood,Lucien Sun
Publisher : USFQ Press
Page : 536 pages
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Release : 2022-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789978682074

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The Codex Mendoza: new insights by Jorge Gómez Tejada,Davide Domenici,Chiara Grazia,David Buti,Laura Cartechini,Francesca Rosi,Francesca,Virginia María Lladó-Buisán,Aldo Romani,Antonio Sgamelloti,Constanza Miliani,B. C. Barker-Benfield,Diana Magaloni,Mary Ellen Miller,Claudia Brittenham,Frances F. Berdan,Barbara E. Mundy,Daniela Bleichmar,Todd P. Olson,Carmen Fernández-Salvador,Joanne Harwood,Lucien Sun Pdf

Conceived as a contribution to the continuous construction of the identity of the Codex Mendoza, the present volume is organized around three axes: material analysis, textual and stylistic interpretation, and reception and circulation studies. The works of Barker-Benfield and MOLAB further our objective of understanding the manuscript's materiality. The re-binding and conservation process registered by Barker-Benfield has allowed us to do away with speculation regarding the method of production used to create the manuscript and its previous bindings. This, in turn, has allowed heretofore accepted connections, such as the authorship of Francisco Gualpuyogualcal, to be reexamined. Similarly, the analysis undertaken by the MOLAB team and headed by Davide Domenici has settled the debate on the nature of the pigments used in the production of the manuscript. This has added additional layers of nuance to previously held interpretative hypotheses on the meaning of specific pigments and the strictness of their application in the tlacuilolli. While color holds meaning for the tlacuilo, color is not inexorably linked to its materiality. These observations have the potential to inspire a new generation of interpretative studies, based on ever more accurate data regarding the material nature of the Codex Mendoza. Interpretative studies of the manuscript in this volume represent a line of inquiry that, by considering the manuscript from the complex perspectives of the work of art, literature, and bibliography, complement previous anthropological and historical readings of the Codex Mendoza. My essays as well as those by Diana Magaloni and Daniela Bleichmar reconsider the number and style of the artists who produced the manuscript in order to understand both the process by which it was created as well as the place it occupies in the artistic context of the early viceroyalty. Far from entering a binary relation between subjugator and subjugated, the decisions made by these artists and intellectuals manifest the forms of thinking and seeing time and space in the Mesoamerican world. I demonstrate that the pictures in the Codex Mendoza were painted in a workshop in which one, two, or more individuals collaborated on each page to create a single composition; as such, the creation of these pictures took on an air of rituality and functioned as "an instrument to recreate, reactualize, and make coherent the historical becoming linked to territory with cosmic patterns" (Magaloni, this volume). This last observation complements and reinforces Joanne Harwood's proposed reading of the third section of the manuscript. For Harwood, notwithstanding the originality of the visual solutions used to compose this section of the manuscript, the Codex Mendoza's pre-Columbian model resonates with a Mesoamerican religious genre: the teoamoxtli.

Author : Frances Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520204549

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The Essential Codex Mendoza by Frances Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt Pdf

Consists of v. 2 and 4 of Berdan and Anawalt's The Codex Mendoza (4 v. -- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992).

Author : Frances F. Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aztecs
ISBN : UOM:39015029458042

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The Codex Mendoza: Description of Codex Mendoza by Frances F. Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt Pdf

This four-volume hardcover facsimile edition of Codex Mendoza places the most comprehensive, most extensively illustrated document of Aztec civilization within reach of a broad audience. Compiled in Mexico City around 1541 under the supervision of Spanish clerics, the Codex was intended to inform King Charles V about his newly conquered subjects. The manuscript contains pictorial accounts of Aztec emperors' conquests and tribute paid by the conquered, as well as a remarkable ethnographic record of Aztec daily life from cradle to grave. This four-volume publication is an unsurpassed source of information about Aztec history, geography, economy, social and political organization, glyphic writing, costumes, textiles, military attire, and indigenous art styles. Volume 1 contains interpretive essays by the authors and other leading specialists on every aspect of Codex Mendoza. Volume 2 offers a thorough description and discussion of each pictorial page, and Volume 3 is a complete color facsimile of the manuscript itself. Volume 4, a parallel image volume, is the most innovative and in some ways the most useful of the four. It provides an exact duplicate in black and white of the facsimile Volume 3, with the sixteenth-century Spanish text transcribed and then translated into English. In addition, all the glosses are translated and positioned exactly as on the original pictorial pages. The extensive and useful appendices add such things as pictorial charts of costumes and textiles, translations and discussions of all the glyphs in the codex, and a table of comparative chronologies. In making this extraordinary sixteenth-century work accessible (the original manuscript resides in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England), the authors have performed an invaluable service to Mesoamerican scholars and all those interested in pre-Columbian peoples. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Frances F. Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aztecs
ISBN : UOM:39015029458059

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The Codex Mendoza: Interpretation of Codex Mendoza by Frances F. Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt Pdf

This four-volume hardcover facsimile edition of Codex Mendoza places the most comprehensive, most extensively illustrated document of Aztec civilization within reach of a broad audience. Compiled in Mexico City around 1541 under the supervision of Spanish clerics, the Codex was intended to inform King Charles V about his newly conquered subjects. The manuscript contains pictorial accounts of Aztec emperors' conquests and tribute paid by the conquered, as well as a remarkable ethnographic record of Aztec daily life from cradle to grave. This four-volume publication is an unsurpassed source of information about Aztec history, geography, economy, social and political organization, glyphic writing, costumes, textiles, military attire, and indigenous art styles. Volume 1 contains interpretive essays by the authors and other leading specialists on every aspect of Codex Mendoza. Volume 2 offers a thorough description and discussion of each pictorial page, and Volume 3 is a complete color facsimile of the manuscript itself. Volume 4, a parallel image volume, is the most innovative and in some ways the most useful of the four. It provides an exact duplicate in black and white of the facsimile Volume 3, with the sixteenth-century Spanish text transcribed and then translated into English. In addition, all the glosses are translated and positioned exactly as on the original pictorial pages. The extensive and useful appendices add such things as pictorial charts of costumes and textiles, translations and discussions of all the glyphs in the codex, and a table of comparative chronologies. In making this extraordinary sixteenth-century work accessible (the original manuscript resides in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England), the authors have performed an invaluable service to Mesoamerican scholars and all those interested in pre-Columbian peoples. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Frances F. Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aztecs
ISBN : UOM:39015029458299

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The Codex Mendoza: A facsimile reproduction of Codex Mendoza by Frances F. Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt Pdf

This four-volume hardcover facsimile edition of Codex Mendoza places the most comprehensive, most extensively illustrated document of Aztec civilization within reach of a broad audience. Compiled in Mexico City around 1541 under the supervision of Spanish clerics, the Codex was intended to inform King Charles V about his newly conquered subjects. The manuscript contains pictorial accounts of Aztec emperors' conquests and tribute paid by the conquered, as well as a remarkable ethnographic record of Aztec daily life from cradle to grave. This four-volume publication is an unsurpassed source of information about Aztec history, geography, economy, social and political organization, glyphic writing, costumes, textiles, military attire, and indigenous art styles. Volume 1 contains interpretive essays by the authors and other leading specialists on every aspect of Codex Mendoza. Volume 2 offers a thorough description and discussion of each pictorial page, and Volume 3 is a complete color facsimile of the manuscript itself. Volume 4, a parallel image volume, is the most innovative and in some ways the most useful of the four. It provides an exact duplicate in black and white of the facsimile Volume 3, with the sixteenth-century Spanish text transcribed and then translated into English. In addition, all the glosses are translated and positioned exactly as on the original pictorial pages. The extensive and useful appendices add such things as pictorial charts of costumes and textiles, translations and discussions of all the glyphs in the codex, and a table of comparative chronologies. In making this extraordinary sixteenth-century work accessible (the original manuscript resides in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England), the authors have performed an invaluable service to Mesoamerican scholars and all those interested in pre-Columbian peoples. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477329351

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Descendants of Aztec Pictography by Elizabeth Hill Boone Pdf

In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias, Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Frances F. Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aztecs
ISBN : 0520062345

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The Codex Mendoza by Frances F. Berdan,Patricia Rieff Anawalt Pdf

Author : Jeanette Favrot Peterson,Kevin Trerraciano
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477318409

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The Florentine Codex by Jeanette Favrot Peterson,Kevin Trerraciano Pdf

In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex (1575–1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas. In this edited volume, experts from multiple disciplines analyze the manuscript’s bilingual texts and more than 2,000 painted images and offer fascinating, new insights on its twelve books. The contributors examine the “three texts” of the codex—the original Nahuatl, its translation into Spanish, and its painted images. Together, these constitute complementary, as well as conflicting, voices of an extended dialogue that occurred in and around Mexico City. The volume chapters address a range of subjects, from Nahua sacred beliefs, moral discourse, and natural history to the Florentine artists’ models and the manuscript’s reception in Europe. The Florentine Codex ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec empire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004388116

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts by Anonim Pdf

Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations presents and connects a wide range of high-tech scientific and cultural-interpretative studies of pre-colonial and early colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts.

Author : Pedro Carrasco
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806178479

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The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico by Pedro Carrasco Pdf

The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of Mesoamerica. In a unique political structure, each of the three allies headed a group of kingdoms in the core of the Empire. Each capital possessed settlements of peasants both in its own domain and in those of the other two capitals; in conquered areas nearby, the three capitals had their separate tributaries. In The Tenochca Empire Pedro Carrasco incorporates years of research in the archives of Mexico and Spain and compares primary sources, some not yet published, from all three of the great kingdoms. Carrasco takes in the total tripartite structure of the Empire, defining its component entities and determining how they were organized and how they functioned.

Author : Barbara E. Mundy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477317136

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The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City by Barbara E. Mundy Pdf

Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016 The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his followers conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and razed to the ground." But was it? Drawing on period representations of the city in sculptures, texts, and maps, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City builds a convincing case that this global capital remained, through the sixteenth century, very much an Amerindian city. Barbara E. Mundy foregrounds the role the city's indigenous peoples, the Nahua, played in shaping Mexico City through the construction of permanent architecture and engagement in ceremonial actions. She demonstrates that the Aztec ruling elites, who retained power even after the conquest, were instrumental in building and then rebuilding the city. Mundy shows how the Nahua entered into mutually advantageous alliances with the Franciscans to maintain the city's sacred nodes. She also focuses on the practical and symbolic role of the city's extraordinary waterworks—the product of a massive ecological manipulation begun in the fifteenth century—to reveal how the Nahua struggled to maintain control of water resources in early Mexico City.

Author : Anna Boroffka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110748017

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Between Encyclopedia and Chorography by Anna Boroffka Pdf

During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps – gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or – more recently – 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.

Author : Haicheng Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107028128

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Writing and the Ancient State by Haicheng Wang Pdf

Writing and the Ancient State is a comparative study of the use of writing to create and maintain order in early states.

Author : Geoffrey Yeo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429620089

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Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies by Geoffrey Yeo Pdf

Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies. Based on an in-depth analysis of literature from a wide range of disciplines, including prehistory, archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology, and Chinese and Mesoamerican studies, the book reflects the latest and most relevant historical scholarship. Drawing upon the author’s experience as a practitioner and scholar of records and archives and his extensive knowledge of archival theory and practice, the book embeds its account of the beginnings of recording practices in a conceptual framework largely derived from archival science. Unique both in its breadth of coverage and in its distinctive perspective on early record-making and record-keeping, the book provides the only updated and synoptic overview of early recording practices available worldwide. Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students engaged in the study of archival science, archival history, and the early history of human culture. The book will also appeal to practitioners of archives and records management interested in learning more about the origins of their profession.

Author : Merideth Paxton,Leticia Staines Cicero
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826359070

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Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica by Merideth Paxton,Leticia Staines Cicero Pdf

Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area. These sophisticated, skillfully rendered images occur with architecture, in manuscripts, on large pieces of cloth, and on ceramics.