Barbara_E._Mundy]_The_Death_of_Aztec_Tenochtitlan

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The DEATH of Aztec Tenochtitlan, The LIFE of Mexico City ...

Joe R. and TeResa Lozano Long seRies in LaTin ameRican and LaTino aRT and cuLTuRe ...

The DEATH of Aztec Tenochtitlan, The LIFE of Mexico City Barbara E. Mundy univeRsiTy of Texas PRess ausTin ...

Copyright © 2015 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 201 ...

Contents LisT of iLLusTRaTions vi a cknowLedgmenTs viii chaPTeR 1 Introduction a noTe on sPeLLing and TRansLaTions ix chaPTeR 2 ...

vi figuRes 1.1. Map of the Valley of Mexico xii 1.2. Biombo Portraying a View of the Palace of the Viceroy in Mexico City 2 1.3. ...

vii 4.5. Rulers of Tenochtitlan, from the Plano Parcial de la Ciudad de México 79 4.6. Map of property held by Mexica elites, Hu ...

viii Many books are journeys; this one unfolded as I walked the streets of Mexico City, often side by side with other scholars w ...

ix A Note on Spelling and Translations In the text, Nahuatl words are spelled without diacrit- ics to mark glottal stops and vow ...

figuRe 1.1. Map of the Valley of Mexico, by Olga Vanegas. Amecameca Mount Iztaccihuatl Mount Popocatepetl Lake Zumpanco Zumpanco ...

1 In 1518, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was one of the world’s largest cities. Built on an island in the middle of a shallo ...

2 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy of Tetzcoco. These leaders founded their island city on this spot a ...

inTRoducTion • 3 of the Aztec world has been an enduring topos of both New World and urban history. The Spanish historical nar- ...

4 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy an ambitious three-part history of the Mexica rulers and the empire ...

inTRoducTion • 5 Mendoza folio 2r serves as both an introductory statement and an opening scene, a painted preamble to the histo ...

6 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy figuRe 1.4. Unknown creator, the reign and conquests of Moteuczoma ...

inTRoducTion • 7 is marked by the cessation of the year symbols. Once all a ruler’s conquests have been registered, a new page b ...

8 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy cessation of an indigenous ruling line. The gloss in Span- ish seem ...

inTRoducTion • 9 Moteuczoma’s death were clearly not so convinced. They show in a work like the Codex Aubin that the city is not ...