Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
by
Jeanette Favrot Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the centuries preceding and following the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. In particular, the garden frescoes uncovered in 1974 at the Augustinian monastery...