The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

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Miguel León Portilla
Beacon Press, 1992 - 196 psl.
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.
 

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Omens Foretelling the Arrival of the Spaniards
3
First Reports of the Spaniards Arrival
13
The Messengers Journeys
21
Motecuhzomas Terror and Apathy
32
The Spaniards March on Tlaxcala and Cholula
37
The Gifts of Gold The God Tezcatlipoca Appears
50
The Spaniards Are Welcomed in Tezcoco
56
The Spaniards Arrive in Tenochtitlan
62
The Siege of Tenochtitlan
91
Spanish Raids into the Besieged City
3
The Surrender of Tenochtitlan
15
The Story of the Conquest as Told by the Anonymous Authors of Tlatelolco
27
Elegies on the Fall of the City
45
Aftermath
50
Appendix
75
Selected Bibliography
83

The Massacre in the Main Temple during the Fiesta of Toxcatl
70
The Night of Sorrows
83

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xxxv psl. - So we stood looking about us, for that huge and cursed temple stood so high that from it one could see over everything very well...
xxvi psl. - They ran in among the dancers, forcing their way to the place where the drums were played. They attacked the man who was drumming and cut off his arms. Then they cut off his head, and it rolled across the floor.

Apie autorių (1992)

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.

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