Spanish conquest of the Aztecs
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I grew up in Mexico and I have been a Christian for 22 years. I have frequent interactions with skeptics and Christian Spanish-speakers alike in the United States. Sooner or later the question of the eternal destiny of the unevangelized... more
Daft review of Jaime Lara, Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico. Notre Dame, (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008). Everything about the Spanish/Aztec encounters in sixteenth century Mexico has been... more
In May 1520, on the day of the Feast of Toxcatl, a troop of Spaniards assaulted the Templo Mayor, the main temple in Mexico-Tenochtitlan. The incident was a turning point in the conquest of Mexico. In spite of this, the circulating... more
The fourth known pre-Columbian Maya codex, the only one discovered in the twentieth century, was found by looters in the mid-1960s. First exhibited in New York in 1971, what has come to be known as the Grolier Codex is half of a 20-page,... more
Resumen: El presente texto forma parte de una investigación más amplia, sobre la historia prehispánica y colonial temprana del “canis familiaris” en el Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo, México. Aquí realizamos un primer acercamiento a la... more
Esta tesis, Las Armas en la Conquista. El Armamento Indiano en la Mesoamérica del periodo colonial temprano (1500-1550), presenta una actualización historiográfica del tema y tiene como punto de partida, en su primer capítulo, la... more
Cuando en 1958 se publico en Mexico la primera edicion del li bro, ya clasico, de Edmundo O'Gorman, La invencion de Ame rica, signified un reto "coyuntural" y metodologico en la his toriografia sobre America, en especial, de... more
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, UNCED), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, held 3rd-14th June 1992, launched the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which... more
В книге впервые публикуются комментированные переводы на русский язык сохранившихся частей трех созданных в колониальную эпоху испаноязычных памятников мексиканской историографии XVI-XVII вв. - "Истории народов чичимеков..." и... more
Las guerras tarasco-mexicas fueron una serie de conflictos bélicos, que tuvieron las dos entidades políticas más poderosas de Mesoamérica, desde 1476/77 hasta la Conquista española en el siglo XVI. Por una parte estaba el Tzintzuntzan... more
Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, "La experiencia europea del Nuevo Mundo" (sobre Carmen Bernand y Serge Gruzinski (1991), Historia del Nuevo Mundo, México, FCE, 1995), Historias, 38, abril-septiembre de 1997, pp. 169-171.
Presentación Ramón Manuel Pérez Martínez Director de la colección El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo Proyecto CB SEP-Conacyt 2012: 179178 Esta tercera entrega de "El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo" es una pequeña joya, tanto por la propia... more
A 500 años de la llegada de Cortés a Tenochtitlán conviene reflexionar acerca de las visiones europeas desde las cuales se ha construido México. Este libro revela cómo los ingleses de los siglos xvi y xvii pen-saron, representaron e... more
Project Directors Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper introduce the "Worlds in Collision" NEH-funded Institute for the summer of 2020, and welcome interested academics and potential applicants. See our website at <... more
¡LIBRO DE FANTASÍA!, no académico pues. Barcelona, Editorial Áltera. Si desean un ejemplar en físico pueden contactarme fmiguelod@gmail.com El libro en digital está disponible en Amazon:... more
Empleando dos clásicos clásicos, el primero de Edmundo O'Gorman aplicado a la exploración de América, y el segundo ya generalizando los enfoques se traza un breve esbozo de como desarrolló la historiografía en el trayecto del Quinto... more
Beyond Cortés and Moteuczoma: The Fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan and its Aftermath. In the period of 2019-2021 we will be remembering the Quincentenary of the Spanish invasion and military take-over of much of Mesoamerica. While these... more
An NEH-funded Institute to be held at Adelphi University July 19 - Aug 9, 2020. Eleven visiting scholars will present research on the “New Conquest History,” exploring the newly accessible archives concerning 16th century Mexico, which... more
this was a final I wrote for the conquest of Mexico that I want to use for a scholarship entry. any help would be welcomed
Narrando a Conquista: como a historiografia leu e interpretou os acontecimentos ocorridos no México entre 1519 e 1521 Narrating the Conquest: how historiography read and interpreted the events that occurred in Mexico between 1519 and 1521... more
A re-reading of the "Master Narrative" of the Conquest of Mexico, with emphasis on the indigenous sources and perspectives.
Offers the intellectual rationale for the NEH-funded Institute “Worlds in Collision: Nahua and Spanish Pictorial Histories and Annals in 16th Century Mexico” to be held on the campus of Adelphi University from July 19 - Aug 9, 2020.... more
No podemos afirmar que en el ejército existiera una división entre infantería y marina, lo que sí podemos asegurar es que, sobre todo para aquellos que vivían en la zona de los lagos, también se manejaban con pericia en las batallas... more
A propósito de las pasadas celebraciones del Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (9 de agosto de 2021) y el inicio de los 500 Años de Resistencia Indígena (13 de agosto de 2021) se han suscitado, en diferentes medios, muchos... more
En este artículo se estudian los primeros contactos entre europeos, mayas yucatecos y mexicas y se presenta en castellano una fuente inédita y de gran interés para la historia atlántica del S.XVI: una carta con una primera descripción en... more
This article presents some of the main characteristics of two indigenous historical traditions: the Nahua and the Inca. The author offers a comparative analysis of indigenous actions, reactions, adaptations, transformations, and... more
Instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) of Middle and Late Postclassic and Early Colonial period decorated and plain ware ceramic sherds from Brainerd’s excavation collections at Cerro Portezuelo highlight diachronic changes in... more
Desde os primeiros tempos na Terra, os seres humanos tiveram que lidar com inúmeros obstáculos para sua sobrevivência. Uma das principais ameaças que vem colocando, há milênios, a vida de sociedades inteiras em risco não é, entretanto,... more
The present paper intends to provide a synthesis of the conquest process in America. The enormous cultural shift generated after the conquest is highlighted, as well as the continuity trends in such historical process. There is an... more
Full Daily Schedule for NEH-funded Institute to be held at Adelphi University, July 19 - August 9, 2020 - postponed to 2022 because of Covid. Eleven visiting scholars will present research on the “New Conquest History,” exploring the... more
A Spanish language survey of Spain's societal, religious and military transformation during 900 years of Moorish occupation, and how those changes facilitated the subsequent conquest of the Indigenous Americas.
Quando os espanhóis chegaram em Tenochtitlan em 1519, depararam-se com uma cidade sofisticada em estrutura e organização, com um traçado basicamente ortogonal e um controle absoluto dos recursos hídricos. Fundada no ano de 1325 pelo povo... more