Broken Spears The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Name: Broken Spears The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
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ISBN: 9780807055014

ISBN-10: 0807055018

ISBN-13: 9780807055014

Edition: 1992 (Revised)

Authors: Miguel Leon-Portilla, J. Jorge Klor de Alva

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In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors.

Book details

Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 5/4/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Miguel Leon-Portilla, author of more than forty books including "Broken Spears", is the world's leading scholar on Mesoamerican literature. He lives in Mexico.



Illustrations


Translator's Note


Foreword


Introduction



Omens Foretelling the Arrival of the Spaniards



First Reports of the Spaniards' Arrival



The Messengers' Journeys



Motecuhzoma's Terror and Apathy



The Spaniards March on Tlaxcala and Cholula



The Gifts of Gold: The God Tezcatlipoca Appears



The Spaniards Are Welcomed in Tezcoco



The Spaniards Arrive in Tenochtitlan



The Massacre in the Main Temple during the Fiesta of Toxcatl



The Night of Sorrows



The Siege of Tenochtitlan



Spanish Raids into the Besieged City



The Surrender of Tenochtitlan



The Story of the Conquest as Told by the Anonymous Authors of Tlatelolco



Elegies on the Fall of the City



Aftermath


Appendix


Selected Bibliography


Index