" Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortâes walked along a causeway
leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That …

In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents
composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of …

For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli.
or" year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the …

The Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, established in 1536, liberally educated the sons of
Nahua (Aztec) leaders in New Spain. Its Franciscan pedagogues, including Bernardino de …

The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398–1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was “the
beginning and origin” of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica. Brother of …

Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish
Americas is a trans-cultural collection of studies on visual treatments of the phenomena of …

Spanish Crown policies of the colonial period in Mexico brought waves of forced indigenous
reorganization (congregación) and legal processes of formalized distribution and titling of …

Connected global intellectual history can contribute to the process of decolonising the
curricula by decentring Europe and resituating it as part of an interconnected world. From …

La abundante documentación en lengua náhuatl, elaborada con fines doctrinales cristianos,
nos permite conocer las transformaciones por las que atravesaron las sociedades …

Este trabajo analiza cómo un grupo de intelectuales indígenas plasmó, a partir del trasvase
a la lengua náhuatl de varias obras en latín y castellano, sus impresiones sobre la guerra …