Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin
James Lockhart
Among the native-language documents written by the Nahuas of central Mexico after Spanish contact, the annals genre gave them the freest rein in expressing themselves. The premier practitioner of the Nahuatl annals form was a writer of the early seventeenth century now known as Chimalpahin. Until recently, attention went primarily to his writings about precontact events.
Now Chimalpahin's equally important writings about his own time have begun to come to the fore; the present volume is the first English edition of Chimalpahin's largest work, written during the first two decades of the seventeenth century. The great immediate value of the ... Read more
The edition features a faithful transcription and a very readable translation. The apparatus includes telling new analysis of both language and content.
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