The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico The Day This event occurred on march 12, 2014. in the first part of this two part lecture series at the getty research institute, ucla professor kevin terraciano exp. Current digital project “indigenous voices and visions of the spanish conquest: book xii of the florentine codex.” the florentine codex initiative’s purpose is to digitize, transcribe, translate and analyze the florentine codex, a nahuatl and spanish language 16th century text, beginning with the 12th book on the conquest of mexico.
Spanish Conquistador Fighting Against An Aztec Eagle Warrior During The The 2,500 page manuscript was completed in 1577, a generation after the spanish conquest, in tlatelolco, today part of mexico city. the text holds a wealth of information on the aztec empire, pre. In conjunction with the exhibition connecting seas: a visual history of discoveries and encounters, this lecture series documents how people have crossed seas to discover other cultures, from 16th century aztec mexico to the 19th century belgian congo. internationally renowned scholars kevin terraciano and adam hochschild elucidate how historic moments of cultural encounter and colonial. 2021 represents the five hundred year anniversary of the fall of tenochtitlan, the capital of the aztec empire. this essay addresses the rendering of the events that culminated in the spanish domination of that region in two texts associated with the franciscan friar bernardino de sahagún (1499–1590). Research. terraciano specializes in latin american history, especially mexico and the indigenous cultures and languages of central and southern mexico (including nahuatl, mixtec, and zapotec) in the colonial period. he is the author of the mixtecs of colonial oaxaca: Ñudzahui history, 16th through 18th centuries (stanford university press.
500 Years Later The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being Debated 2021 represents the five hundred year anniversary of the fall of tenochtitlan, the capital of the aztec empire. this essay addresses the rendering of the events that culminated in the spanish domination of that region in two texts associated with the franciscan friar bernardino de sahagún (1499–1590). Research. terraciano specializes in latin american history, especially mexico and the indigenous cultures and languages of central and southern mexico (including nahuatl, mixtec, and zapotec) in the colonial period. he is the author of the mixtecs of colonial oaxaca: Ñudzahui history, 16th through 18th centuries (stanford university press. A nahua account of the spanish conquest. book 12 of the florentine codex narrates the spanish invasion of mexico, 1519–1521, in nahuatl and from the point of view of the nahuas who witnessed (and later wrote down a narrative of) the events. this book was edited by a spanish friar, bernardino de sahagún, in the second half of the sixteenth. An artistic rendering of the retreat of hernán cortés from tenochtitlán, the aztec capital, in 1520. the spanish conquistador led an expedition to present day mexico, landing in 1519. although.
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