Main entry:

Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590, author.

Title & Author:

The war of conquest : how it was waged here in Mexico : the Aztecs' own story / as given to Bernardino de Sahagún ; rendered into modern English by Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble.

Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [1978].
©1978.

Description:

xix, 94 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
A modernized translation of book 12, Historia de la conquista de Mexico of Historia general de Las cosas de Nueva España.
Introduction -- Chart I. Chronology of the Conquest of Mexico -- Chart II. Aztec Chronology of the Conquest -- To the Reader, by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún -- Map of the Route of Cortés and His Allies -- Chapter I. Prelude of Evil Signs -- Chapter II. The Landings -- Chapter III. The March on Mexico -- Map of Tenochtitlan and Tlatilulco -- Chapter IV. The Capture and Death of Moctezuma -- Chapter V. The Escape of the Spaniards -- Chapter VI.The Return of the Spaniards -- Chapter VII. Mexico Under Siege -- Chapter VIII. The Beginning of the End -- Chapter IX. The End Epilogue.

Summary:

In Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex, the 16th century study of Ancient Mexico that Franciscan missionary, Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590) conducted, the history of the Spanish conquest was captured in the Nahuatl language, accompanied by a translation into Spanish. Nahua elders and authors who were formerly Sahagún’s students at the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, conducted research, organized evidence, wrote and edited Sahagún’s findings. Sahagún worked on this project from 1545 up until his death in 1590. Charles E. Dibble and Arthur J. O. Anderson are the first to translate all twelve books of the Codex from Nahuatl to English, in a project that took 30 years to complete. This book focuses on the original Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex which recounts the history of the conflict with a greater perspective from the Nahuatl.

ISBN:

0874801117 (hardcover)
9780874801118 (hardcover)
0874801923 (pbk.)
9780874801927 (pbk.)

Subject:

Aztecs History.
Aztèques Histoire.
Aztecs
Mexico History Conquest, 1519-1540.
Mexique Histoire 1519-1540 (Conquête)
Mexico

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Anderson, Arthur J. O., translator.
Dibble, Charles E., translator.
Anderson, Arthur J. O.
Dibble, Charles E.
United States Utah Salt Lake City.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110749
Call No.: 7903; ID:85-B1803
Status: Available