Aztec history, colonial heroes: reimagining the Mexica-Chalca War in early New Spain.
This essay addresses how colonial writers in Spanish-ruled Mexico repurposed memories of the pre-colonial Aztec world they encountered via Nahua historical knowledge and its associated texts. The essay focuses on accounts produced between approximately 1580 and 1625 of an important fifteenth-century...
| Publicado en: | Colonial Latin American Review Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 86 - 113 |
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