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17 pa r t o n e The Sources the scholars who study nezahualcoyotl and his city, texcoco, draw their information mainly from the chronicles of spanish friars such as toribio de benavente (Motolinia),Andrés de olmos, and Juan de torquemada and some of the texcoca chroniclers such as Juan bautista Pomar and don fernando de Alva ixtlilxochitl. Most scholars, however, ignore the colonial context in which these chronicles were written and in which their primary indigenous sources were reproduced. by reviewing the possible sources and informants for the main chronicles about nezahualcoyotl, chapter 1 demonstrates how the major chroniclers of nezahualcoyotl selected and manipulated their sources according to european historical criteria and texcoca regionalism in the context of colonial society. ...

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