Aztecs: an interpretation / Print
Ingo Clendinnen
- Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press 1991
- 398 p. Note; bibliography, index. Hardback book
The city. Tenochtitlan : the public image -- Local perspectives -- Roles. Victims -- Warriors, priests and merchants -- The masculine self discovered -- Wives -- Mothers -- The female being revealed -- The sacred. Aesthetics -- Ritual : the world transformed, the world revealed -- The city destroyed. Defeat -- Epilogue.
In August of 1521 the city of Tenochtitlan, the magnificent center of the Aztec tribute empire, fell to Spaniards, led by hernando Cortes, and a shifting coalition of Indian allies. It is the people of that city in their last unthreatened years who are the subjects of this study. Study and examination of Aztec society, art, rites, and ceremonies before the Aztec empire fell to the Spanish in 1521.
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