Translated by Deke Dusinberre
With Chronology - Maps - glossary - Bibliography - Index
Gruzinski examines the fascinating result of the cultural encounter through the illustrations of over one thousand codices producedby Mexican artists during the sixteenth century. the expressive and beautiful decorative, they depict the pre-Columbian universe and colonal Mexico with an encyclopedic vision, providing a minutely detailed and invaluable chronicle of the Spanish conquest and the gradual disappearance of the ancient civilization.

The Mexican artists' testimony in these magnificent codices communicates what no text has conveyed, and what no archive could record. This timely study presents for the first time the view of the vanquished in the face of the invasion by the conquistadores and the upheavals that resulted from the 'discovery' of the New World.

Serge Gruzinski (1949) is a French historian. He is a Latin America specialist.
Gruzinski is interested in the colonisation of the Americas and Asia, especially the colonial experiences like those cross-cultural areas, birth of hybrid spaces and first manifestations of globalisation. With Carmen Bernand, he published De l’idolâtrie : Une archéologie des sciences religieuses and two volumes of Histoire du Nouveau Monde. He is the author of Le destin brisé de l’empire aztèque, a richly illustrated pocket book from the collection “Découvertes Gallimard”, which has been translated into nine languages, including English.
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Pedro de Alvaro - Karel V - Codex Borbonicus - Azteekse codices - Codex Borgia - Codex Durán - Codex ixtilxóchitl - Codex Magliabechiano - Codex Mendoza - Codex Telleriano-Remensis - Codex Vaticanus Latinus - Hernán Cortès - Descripcíon de Tlaxcala - Florentijnse Codex - Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca - Huitzilopochtli - Antonia de Mendoza - Moctezuma - Quetzalcoatl - Bernardino de Sahagún - Texcoco - Tezcatlipoca

kolonisatie - Mexico - 16e eeuw