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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schroeder, Susan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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  • 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