Chimalpahin's Conquest : A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico /
This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chimalpahin's Conquest
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The History of Chimalpahin's "Conquista" Manuscript
- II. Reclaiming the Conquest
- III. Francisco López de Gómara and La conquista de México
- The Conquest of Mexico
- Chapter 1. The Birth of Hernando Cortés
- Chapter 2. Cortés's Age When He Sailed to the Indies
- Chapter 3. Hernando Cortés's Stay in Santo Domingo
- Chapter 4. Some Things that Happened to Cortés in Cuba
- Chapter 5. The Discovery of New Spain, and Other Things
- Chapter 6. Juan de Grijalva's Barter from the Islands of Yucatan and San Juan de Ulúa
- Chapter 7. The Conquest of Mexico, and Cortés's Preparations to Arm the Fleet
- Chapter 8. The Men and Ships that Cortés Took for the Conquest
- Chapter 9. Cortés Speaks to His Troops with Great Discretion as a Good Captain
- Chapter 10. Cortés's Entry into Acuzamil
- Chapter 11. News from the People of Cozumel About the Spanish Interpreter Gerónimo de Aguilar
- Chapter 12. Gerónimo de Aguilar Comes to Hernando Cortés
- Chapter 13. Cortés Orders the Destruction of the Cozumel Idols
- Chapter 14. How the Island Was Named Cozumel Santa Cruz
- Chapter 15. The People of Cozumel's Religion and Temples, or Cues
- Chapter 16. In Which Is Told the Story of the Shark, and Other Marvels
- Chapter 17. The Tides Rise Greatly at Campeche, but Not Nearby
- Chapter 18. The Battle and Capture of Potonchan
- Chapter 19. Which Narrates the Battle with the Indians of Potonchan
- Chapter 20. Of the Demands and Replies Between Cortés and the People of Potonchan
- Chapter 21. The Battle of Cintla, or Tzintla, that Cortés and His Men Fought with the Indians of Cintla
- Chapter 22. How the Cacique of Tabasco Befriended the Christians
- Chapter 23. Questions that Cortés Asked the Cacique of Tabasco
- Chapter 24. How the Indians of Potonchan Destroyed Their Idols and Worshiped the Cross
- Chapter 25. On the Río Alvarado, Which the Indians Called Papaloapan
- Chapter 26. The Warm Reception Given Cortés in San Juan de Ulúa
- Chapter 27. How Cortés Spoke with Teudilli, a Servant of King Moteuczoma
- Chapter 28. The Gifts and Response that Moteuczoma Sent to Cortés
- Chapter 29. How Cortés Learned that There Were Factions Among the Natives in Those Lands
- Chapter 30. How Cortés Explored the Land with Four Hundred Companions
- Chapter 31. How Cortés Resigned His Command
- Chapter 32. How the Soldiers Made Cortés Captain and Alcalde Mayor
- Chapter 33. The Reception Given Cortés in Cempoala
- Chapter 34. What the Lord of Cempoala Said to Cortés
- Chapter 35. What Occurred or Happened to Cortés at the Port of Quiahuahuiztlan, and Other Remarkable Events
- Chapter 36. The Messages that Cortés Sent to King Moteuczoma
- Chapter 37. The Rebellion and Alliance Against Moteuczoma Plotted by Cortés
- Chapter 38. The Founding of Villa Rica de la Veracruz
- Chapter 39. How Cortés Took Tizapancinco124 by Force, and Other Occurrences
- Chapter 40. The Gift that Cortés Sent to Emperor Carlos V
- Chapter 41. The Letters from the Cabildo and the Army to the Emperor Regarding Cortés's Appointment as Governor
- Chapter 42. The Mutiny Against Cortés, and the Punishment that He Inflicted
- Chapter 43. How Cortés, Using Great Cunning, Scuttled His Ships
- Chapter 44. The Indians of Tlaxcala [sic]131 Cast Down Their Idols Because of Cortés's Admonitions
- Chapter 45. Olimtletl, Lord of Zaclotan,137 Extols the Might and Greatness of Moteuczoma
- Chapter 46. Cortés's First Clash with the Tlaxcalteca
- Chapter 47. How One Hundred and Forty Thousand Gathered Against Cortés
- Chapter 48. The Great Threats Made by the Tlaxcalteca Against Our Spaniards
- Chapter 49. How Cortés Cut Off the Hands of Fifty Spies
- Chapter 50. Moteuczoma's Embassy to Cortés
- Chapter 51. How Cortés Captured Zimpancinco, a Very Large City Subject to Tlaxcala
- Chapter 52. On the Wish by Some Spaniards to Abandon the Budding War
- Chapter 53. Cortés's Oration to His Soldiers. On the Address Captain Hernando Cortés Gave to All His Soldiers
- Chapter 54. How Captain Xicotencatl Came as Ambassador of Tlaxcala to Cortés's Camp
- Chapter 55. The Reception and Service Given Our Spaniards in the Great City of Tlaxcala
- Chapter 56. An Account About Tlaxcala, Its Lifeways, and the Governance of the Republic
- Chapter 57. The Tlaxcalteca's Response to Captain Cortés on Abandoning Their Idols
- Chapter 58. On the Great Ancient Enmity that Existed Between the Mexica and the Tlaxcalteca
- Chapter 59. The Solemn Reception Given to the Spaniards at Great Cholola
- Chapter 60. How the Chololteca Attempted to Betray and Murder the Spaniards
- Chapter 61. How Cortés Punished the Chololteca for Their Treason of the Spaniards and Their Friends
- Chapter 62. On the Greatness of the City and Sanctuary of Cholola, and the Rites Practiced There
- Chapter 63. The Mountain Called Popocatepec
- Chapter 64. The Council Held by Moteuczoma Before Allowing Cortés to Go to Mexico
- Chapter 65. On What Occurred to Cortés Between Cholola and Mexico
- Chapter 66. On the Admirable Reception Given Cortés by King Moteuczoma
- Chapter 67. How King Moteuczoma Spoke to the Spaniards, Welcoming Them
- Chapter 68. On the Cleanliness and Majesty of King Moteuczoma's Physical Appearance
- Chapter 69. On the Foot Jugglers
- Chapter 70. On the Ball Game
- Chapter 71. The Dances of Mexico
- Chapter 72. The [LdeG: Many] Women that King Moteuczoma Had in the Palace
- Chapter 73. The House of Birds Kept for Their Feathers
- Chapter 74. The House of Birds for the Hunt
- Chapter 75. The Armories
- Chapter 76. Moteuczoma's Gardens
- Chapter 77. Moteuzcoma's Court and Guard
- Chapter 78. Everyone Pays Tribute to King Moteuczoma
- Chapter 79. On Mexico Tenochtitlan
- Chapter 80. The Marketplaces of Mexico
- Chapter 81. The Temple of Mexico
- Chapter 82. The Idols of Mexico
- Chapter 83. The Skull Rack that the Mexica Had as a Reminder of Death
- Chapter 84. Cortés Takes Moteuczoma Prisoner
- Chapter 85. Moteuczoma's Hunt
- Chapter 86. How Cortés Destroyed the Idols of Mexico
- Chapter 87. Cortés's Speech to the People of Mexico About the Idols
- Chapter 88. The Burning of Qualpopoca and Other Noblemen
- Chapter 89. The Reason Qualpopoca Was Burned
- Chapter 90. How Cortés Shackled Moteuczoma
- Chapter 91. Cortés Orders a Search for Gold in Many Places
- Chapter 92. The Imprisonment of King Cacamatzin of Tetzcoco
- Chapter 93. Moteuczoma's Oration to His Noblemen, Offering Himself to the King of Castile
- Chapter 94. The Gold and Jewels Moteuczoma Gave Cortés
- Chapter 95. How Moteuczoma Begged Cortés to Leave Mexico
- Chapter 96. How King Moteuczoma Sent for Captain Cortés to Drive Him from the Land
- Chapter 97. Cortés and His Men Fear Being Sacrificed
- Chapter 98. How Diego Velázquez Sent Pánfilo de Narváez with Many People to Attack Cortés
- Chapter 99. What Cortés Wrote to Narváez
- Chapter 100. What Pánfilo de Narváez Told [LdeG: the Indians and] Cortés
- Chapter 101. What Cortés Told His Men
- Chapter 102. Cortés Pleads with Moteuczoma
- Chapter 103. The Imprisonment of Pánfilo de Narváez
- Chapter 104. The Death Toll from Smallpox
- Chapter 105. The Mexica Rebel Against the Spaniards
- Chapter 106. The Reasons for the Rebellion
- Chapter 107. The Mexica Threaten the Spaniards
- Chapter 108. The Dire Straits in Which the Mexica Placed Our People
- Chapter 109. The Death of Moteuczoma
- Chapter 110. The Fighting Between Them
- Chapter 111. The Mexica Refuse the Truces Proposed by Cortés
- Chapter 112. How Cortés Fled Mexico
- Chapter 113. The Battle at Otumba
- Chapter 114. The Welcome Given the Spaniards in Tlaxcala
- Chapter 115. What the Soldiers Petitioned Cortés
- Chapter 116. Oration in Response to the Official Petition
- Chapter 117. The War at Tepeaca
- Chapter 118. How the People of Huacachola299 Submitted to Cortés After Killing the Colhuaque
- Chapter 119. LdeG: The Capture of Itzocan
- Chapter 120.
- The Great Authority Cortés Held over the Indians
- Chapter 121. The Brigantines Cortés Built, and the Spaniards He Assembled to Fight Mexico
- Chapter 122. On Captain Cortés's Pronouncement to His Men
- Chapter 123. Cortés Addresses the Tlaxcalteca
- Chapter 124. How Cortés Took Tetzcoco
- Chapter 125. The Battle of Iztacpalapan
- Chapter 126. The Spaniards Sacrificed at Tetzcoco
- Chapter 127. How the Brigantines Were Brought to Tetzcoco by the Tlaxcalteca
- Chapter 128. On Cortés's First View of Mexico in the Company of Friends and Three Hundred Spaniards
- Chapter 129. An Account of the War Cortés Waged on the Province of Yacapichtlan
- Chapter 130. The Dangers to Our People on Taking Two Peaks, and What Happened Next
- Chapter 131. On Cortés's Battle to Conquer Xochimilco and Its Towns
- Chapter 132. On the Canal Cortés Built from Tetzcoco to the Lake to Bring the Brigantines to the Water, and Other Things
- Chapter 133. LdeG: Cortés's Army at the Siege of Mexico
- Chapter 134. The Battle and Victory of the Brigantines over the Acales
- Chapter 135. How Cortés Lay Siege to Mexico
- Chapter 136. The First Skirmish in Mexico
- Chapter 137. The General Damage and Burning of Houses
- Chapter 138. On the Diligence of Quauhtemoc and Cortés
- Chapter 139. How Cortés Had Two Hundred Thousand Men Surround Mexico
- Chapter 140. What Pedro de Alvarado Did in Order to Advance
- Chapter 141. The Mexica's Festivities and Sacrifices over a Victory
- Chapter 142. The (f. 114v) Conquest of Malinalco, Matlatzinco, and Other Towns
- Chapter 143. On Cortés's Determination to Lay Waste to Mexico
- Chapter 144. The Hunger and Ailments that the Mexica Courageously Endured
- Chapter 145. The Capture of Quauhtemoc
- Chapter 146. On the Capture of Mexico
- Chapter 147. Signs and Portents of the Destruction of Mexico
- Chapter 148. How Quauhtemoc and Other Lords Were Tortured in Order to Reveal the Treasure at Coyoacan
- Chapter 149. The Royal Fifth and Service from the Spoils of Mexico
- Chapter 150. How Cazoncin,390 King of Michoacan, Surrendered to Cortés
- Chapter 151. The Conquest of Tochtepec and Coatzacoalco by Gonzalo de Sandoval
- Chapter 152. The Conquest of Tutepec
- Chapter 153. The War at Coliman
- Chapter 154. About Cristóbal de Tapia, Who Went to Mexico as Governor
- Chapter 155. The War at Pánuco
- Chapter 156. How Francisco de Garay Went to Pánuco with a Large Fleet
- Chapter 157. The Death of Adelantado Francisco de Garay
- Chapter 158. The Pacification of Pánuco
- Chapter 159. The Tribulations of Licenciado Alonso Zuazo
- Chapter 160. The Conquest of Utlatlan by Pedro de Alvarado
- Chapter 161. The Conquest of Guatemala
- Chapter 162. The War at Chamolla
- Chapter 163. The Fleet Cortés Sent to Las Higueras with Cristóbal de Olid
- Chapter 164. The Conquest of the Zapotec Region
- Chapter 165. The Rebuilding of Mexico
- Chapter 166. How Cortés Took Care to Enrich New Spain
- Chapter 167. How the Bishop of Burgos Was Recused [LdeG: from Cortés's Affairs]
- Chapter 168. How Cortés Became Governor
- Chapter 169. On the Conquerors
- Chapter 170. How Cortés Carried Out the Conversion of the Indians
- Chapter 171. The Silver Cannon that Cortés Fashioned for the Emperor
- Chapter 172. On the Strait that Many Searched for in the Indies
- Chapter 173. How Cristóbal de Olid Rebelled Against Hernando Cortés
- Chapter 174. How Cortés Left Mexico to Challenge Cristóbal de Olid
- Chapter 175. How Cortés's Lieutenants Rebelled Against Him in Mexico
- Chapter 176. The Imprisonment of the Factor and the Inspector
- Chapter 177. The People Cortés Took to Las Higueras
- Chapter 178. On the Priests of Tatahuitlapan
- Chapter 179. The Bridge Built by Cortés
- Chapter 180. On Apoxpalon, Lord of Yzancanac
- Chapter 181. The Death of don Hernando de Alvarado Quauhtemoc
- Chapter 182. How Canek Burned the Idols
- Chapter 183. A Difficult Road Taken by Our Men
- Chapter 184. What Cortés Accomplished in Nito
- Chapter 185. How Cortés Arrived at Naco
- Chapter 186. How Cortés Responded to the Conflict in Mexico
- Chapter 187. The War at Papaica
- Chapter 188. On Cortés's Return to New Spain
- Chapter 189. On the Celebrations in Mexico in Cortés's Honor
- Chapter 190. How the Emperor Ordered a Residencia Be Taken for Cortés
- Chapter 191. The Death of Luis Ponce [de León]
- Chapter 192. How Alonso de Estrada Exiled Cortés from Mexico
- Chapter 193. How Cortés Sent Ships in Search of the Spice Islands
- Chapter 194. How Cortés Came to Spain
- Chapter 195. The Favors Granted to Cortés by the Emperor
- Chapter 196. On Cortés's Marriage
- Chapter 197. How the Emperor Established an Audiencia in Mexico
- Chapter 198. Cortés Returns to Mexico
- Chapter 199. How Cortés Explored the South Sea Coast in New Spain
- Chapter 200. What Cortés Suffered on Continuing the Exploration of the South [Sea]
- Chapter 201. The Sea of Cortés, Also Called Bermejo, or the Crimson Sea
- Chapter 202. On Writing in Mexico
- Chapter 203. On the Terms for Counting
- Chapter 204. On the Mexica Year
- Chapter 205. On the Names of the Months
- Chapter 206. On the Names of the Days
- Chapter 207. On the Year Count
- Chapter 208. On the Five Suns that Are Five Ages
- Chapter 209. The Chichimeca
- Chapter 210. The Acolhuaque
- Chapter 211. The Mexica
- Chapter 212. Why They Are Called the Acolhuaque
- Chapter 213. On the Kings of Mexico
- Chapter 214. On Typical Inheritance Practices
- Chapter 215. The Swearing In and Coronation of the King
- Chapter 216. The Nobility of a Teuctli
- Chapter 217. What the Mexica Understand About the Soul
- Chapter 218. On the Burial of Kings
- Chapter 219. How the Kings of Michoacan Are Cremated for Burial
- Chapter 220. On Children
- Chapter 221. [LdeG: On the Enclosure of Women]
- Chapter 222. On the Many Women
- Chapter 223. Marriage Rites
- Chapter 224. On Men's Customs
- Chapter 225. On Women's Customs
- Chapter 226. About the Household
- Chapter 227. Of Wine and Drunkenness
- Chapter 228. On Slaves
- Chapter 229. On Judges and Laws
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index