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6%OFFLisa Sousa - The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649 - 9780804734837 - V9780804734837
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The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649

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Description for The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649 Paperback. The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe has been an important element in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. This volume presents an English translation of the original Nahuatl on which the legend is based. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; HBJK; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.

The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most important elements in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. The picture of the Virgen morena (Dark Virgin) is to be found everywhere throughout Mexico, and her iconography is varied almost beyond telling. Though innumerable books, both historical and devotional, have been published on the Guadalupan legend in this century alone, it is only recently that its textual sources have been closely studied.

This volume makes available to the English-reading public an easily accessible translation from the original Nahuatl of the ... Read more

The story of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe to a poor indigenous man less than fifteen years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico did not come into prominence until the mid-seventeeth century. The first known telling of the tale appeared in a book published in Spanish in 1648 by the priest Miguel Sánchez. On the heels of the Sánchez version, the story was included in the book Huei tlamahuiçoltica published in 1649 by Luis Laso de la Vega, the vicar of the Guadalupe chapel and a friend of Sánchez. It had little impact initially, but by the twentieth century, with indigenism triumphant, it had become the best known version.

There have been a few translations of Laso de la Vega's apparition story into English but only on a popular or devotional level. The present edition offers a translation and transcription of the complete text of the 1649 edition, together with critical apparatus, including comparisons of the Sánchez and Laso de la Vega texts, and various linguistic, orthographic, and typographical matters that throw light on the date and manner of composition.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804734837
SKU
V9780804734837
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About Lisa Sousa
Lisa Sousa is Assistant Professor of History at Occidental College. Stafford Poole, C.M., is Professor Emeritus of History and President Emeritus of St. John's College, Camarillo, California. James Lockhart is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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