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Baird, Ellen T [Contributor]; Bassett, Molly H [Contributor]; Boone, Elizabeth Hill [Contributor]; Gonzalbo, Pablo Escalante [Contributor]; Keber, Eloise Quiñones [Contributor]; Kerpel, Diana Magaloni [Contributor]; Mundy, Barbara E [Contributor]; Olivier, Guilhem [Contributor]; Peterson, Jeanette Favrot [Contributor]; Peterson, Jeanette Favrot [Editor]; Rao, Ida Giovanna [Contributor]; Sousa, Lisa [Contributor]; Terraciano, Kevin [Contributor]; Trerraciano, Kevin [Editor]

The Florentine Codex : An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The Florentine Codex : An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
  • Contributor: Baird, Ellen T [MitwirkendeR]; Bassett, Molly H [MitwirkendeR]; Boone, Elizabeth Hill [MitwirkendeR]; Gonzalbo, Pablo Escalante [MitwirkendeR]; Keber, Eloise Quiñones [MitwirkendeR]; Kerpel, Diana Magaloni [MitwirkendeR]; Mundy, Barbara E [MitwirkendeR]; Olivier, Guilhem [MitwirkendeR]; Peterson, Jeanette Favrot [MitwirkendeR]; Peterson, Jeanette Favrot [HerausgeberIn]; Rao, Ida Giovanna [MitwirkendeR]; Sousa, Lisa [MitwirkendeR]; Terraciano, Kevin [MitwirkendeR]; Trerraciano, Kevin [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: Austin: University of Texas Press, [2021]
    [Online-Ausgabe]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.7560/318409
  • ISBN: 9781477318416
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  • Keywords: Aztecs History 16th century ; Manuscripts, Mexican ; Manuscripts, Nahuatl ; ART / Caribbean & Latin American
  • Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]
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  • Footnote: In English
    Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
  • Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Encyclopedia of Nahua Culture: Context and Content -- Part I THE ART OF TRANSLATION -- Chapter 1 Images in Translation: A Codex “Muy Historiado” -- Chapter 2 On the Reception of the Florentine Codex: The First Italian Translation -- Chapter 3 Reading between the Lines of Book 12 -- Chapter 4 The Art of War, the Working Class, and Snowfall: Reflections on the Assimilation of Western Aesthetics -- Part II LORDS ROYAL AND SACRED -- Chapter 5 Surviving Conquest: Depicting Aztec Deities in Sahagún’s Historia -- Chapter 6 Fashioning Conceptual Categories in the Florentine Codex: Old-World and Indigenous Foundations for the Rulers and the Gods -- Chapter 7 Teotl and Diablo: Indigenous and Christian Conceptions of Gods and Devils in the Florentine Codex -- Part III ORDERING THE COSMOS -- Chapter 8 Ecology and Leadership: Pantitlan and Other Erratic Phenomena -- Chapter 9 Bundling Natural History: Tlaquimilolli, Folk Biology, and Book 11 -- Chapter 10 Powerful Words and Eloquent Images -- Part IV SOCIAL DISCOURSE AND DEVIANCE -- Chapter 11 Rhetoric as Acculturation: The Anomalous Book 6 -- Chapter 12 Flowers and Speech in Discourses on Deviance in Book 10 -- Chapter 13 Parts of the Body Order and Disorder -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

    In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex (1575–1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas. In this edited volume, experts from multiple disciplines analyze the manuscript’s bilingual texts and more than 2,000 painted images and offer fascinating, new insights on its twelve books. The contributors examine the “three texts” of the codex—the original Nahuatl, its translation into Spanish, and its painted images. Together, these constitute complementary, as well as conflicting, voices of an extended dialogue that occurred in and around Mexico City. The volume chapters address a range of subjects, from Nahua sacred beliefs, moral discourse, and natural history to the Florentine artists’ models and the manuscript’s reception in Europe. The Florentine Codex ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec empire
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