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Aztec Latin - Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico (Hardcover)
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Aztec Latin - Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico (Hardcover)
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In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire,
Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric,
and Aristotelian philosophy to native youths in central Mexico. The
remarkable linguistic and cultural exchanges that would result from
that initiative are the subject of this book. Aztec Latin
highlights the importance of Renaissance humanist education for
early colonial indigenous history, showing how practices central to
humanism — the cultivation of eloquence, the training of leaders,
scholarly translation, and antiquarian research — were
transformed in New Spain to serve Indian elites as well as the
Spanish authorities and religious orders. While Franciscan friars,
inspired by Erasmus' ideal of a common tongue, applied principles
of Latin grammar to Amerindian languages, native scholars
translated the Gospels, a range of devotional literature, and even
Aesop's fables into the Mexican language of Nahuatl. They also
produced significant new writings in Latin and Nahuatl, adorning
accounts of their ancestral past with parallels from Greek and
Roman history and importing themes from classical and Christian
sources to interpret pre-Hispanic customs and beliefs. Aztec Latin
reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered
and made use of European learning and provides a timely
reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.
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Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Andrew Laird
(John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities and Professor of Hispanic Studies)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
496 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-758635-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-19-758635-X |
Barcode: |
9780197586358 |
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