Lori Boornazian Diel: 2 books
The Codex Mexicanus
A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript,...
The Tira de Tepechpan
Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Created in Tepechpan, a relatively minor Aztec city in Central Mexico, the Tira de Tepechpan records important events in the city's history from 1298 through 1596. Most of the history is presented pictographically. A line of indigenous year signs runs the length of the Tira, with images above the...