Texcoco
Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives
Publication Year: 2014
Contributors address some of the most pressing issues in Texcocan studies and bring new ones to light: the role of Texcoco in the Aztec empire, the construction and transformation of Prehispanic history in the colonial period, the continuity and transformation of indigenous culture and politics after the conquest, and the nature and importance of iconographic and alphabetic texts that originated in this city-state, such as the Codex Xolotl, the Mapa Quinatzin, and Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s chronicles. Multiple scholarly perspectives and methodological approaches offer alternative paradigms of research and open a needed dialogue among disciplines—social, political, literary, and art history, as well as the history of science.
This comprehensive overview of Prehispanic and colonial Texcoco will be of interest to Mesoamerican scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
Published by: University Press of Colorado
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The Aztec city-state of Texcoco was an important polity in what is commonly referred to as the Aztec empire. It has not been studied as intensely as Tenochtitlan, but it has provoked a number of debates concerning...
1. Texcocan Studies Past and Present
JONGSOO LEE, GALEN BROKAW
From the conquest through the present, Texcoco, best known as the home of the famous King Nezahualcoyotl, has been an important topic of research on Prehispanic and colonial Mexico. Numerous Texcocan leaders...
2. Improving Western Historiography of Texcoco
JEROME A. OFFNER
Isabel Bueno Bravo ( 2005) describes Tlatelolco as standing in the shadow of Tenochtitlan, and the same is true of Texcoco, although for different reasons. Research on the Aztecs came of age in a post- Revolutionary Mexico, with its one-party state dominated...
3. The Aztec Triple Alliance: A Colonial Transformation of the Prehispanic Political and Tributary System
JONGSOO LEE
In scholarship on Prehispanic Mexico, the dominant view has maintained that the Aztec empire consisted of a Triple Alliance among the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which distributed land and tribute among themselves. is collaboration of...
4. Polygyny and the Divided Altepetl: e Tetzcocan Key to Pre-conquest Nahua Politics
CAMILLA TOWNSEND
The mid-sixteenth-century Nahua historian from Cuauhtitlan bent to his task: he was in the midst of transforming a traditional pictorial xiuhpohualli into a set of annals written out using the Roman alphabet. “It was in [the year] Three Rabbit that Nezahualcoyotzin...
5. The Mapa Quinatzin and Texcoco’s Ideal Subordinate Lords
LORI BOORNAZIAN DIEL
The central leaf of the Mapa Quinatzin, painted in 1542 , presents a symbolic and idealized image of the Texcocan palace and larger Acolhua domain under the consecutive reigns of Nezahualcoyotl and...
6. Evidence of Acolhua Science in Pictorial Land Records
BARBARA J. WILLIAMS, JANICE K. PIERCE
The Spanish conquest of ruling polities in the Valley of Mexico in 1521 had two consequences that forever obscured the history of science in the New World.1 One was decimation of the indigenous population within a span of three generations....
7. Don Carlos de Tezcoco and the Universal Rights of Emperor Carlos V
ETHELIA RUIZ MEDRANO
When reflecting on the sixteenth-century conquest and subjugation of extensive and far-flung sections of the Americas, it has generally been emphasized that the European presence in Mesoamerica followed the steady overseas expansion of the Spanish...
8. Beyond the Burned Stake: The Rule of Don Antonio Pimentel Tlahuitoltzin in Tetzcoco, 1540-45
BRADLEY BENTON
In 1539, don Carlos Chichimecatecuhtli, member of the ruling family of Tetzcoco and son of the great Tetzcoca tlatoani (ruler) Nezahualpilli (r. 1472–1515), was convicted by the Holy Office of the Inquisition of heretical dogmatizing and burned at the stake...
9. The Alva Ixtlilxochitl Brothers and the Nahua Intellectual Community
AMBER BRIAN
Ángel María Garibay K. concludes the two-volume Historia de la literatura náhuatl (Garibay K. 1971 [1954]) with the suggestively titled chapter “Vuelo Roto,” in which he uses don Bartolomé de Alva (b. ca. 1597),...
10. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Texcocan Dynasty
PABLO GARCÍA LOAEZA
Feranto Mexía, a nobleman of arms and letters in fifteenth-century Jaén, wrote his Nobiliario ( 1492) to demonstrate that the essential ingredient of nobility is old blood, that noble status is determined primarily by a lineage’s antiquity. Two hundred years later Mexía...
11. The Reinvented Man-God of Colonial Texcoco
LEISA KAUFFMANN
In The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics ( 2008), Jongsoo Lee points out the vast gap separating the figure of Nezahualcoyotl as represented in colonial histories from the actual...
E-ISBN-13: 9781607322849
E-ISBN-10: 1607322846
Print-ISBN-13: 9781607322832
Print-ISBN-10: 1607322838
Page Count: 288
Illustrations: 25
Publication Year: 2014
OCLC Number: 880579966
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