"Listen Well": Sounds and Silences in Nahua Narratives of the Conquest in Book 12 of the Florentine Codex.
Book 12 of the Florentine Codex provides the most comprehensive Indigenous account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico (1519–21). This article analyzes the Nahuatl-language alphabetic texts and images in book 12 to shed light on Nahua aural memory of the encounter between the Mexica and Spaniards, the...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 106; no. 3; pp. 377 - 405 |
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Duke University Press
Aug2026
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