Portraying the Aztec Past Portraying the Aztec Past: The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin the Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin

by Angela Herren Rajagopalan

Book Overview

During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325-1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and mestizo tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) of the sixteenth century continued to use pre-Hispanic pictorial writing systems to record information about native...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477316078
• ISBN13: 9781477316078
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.9"