We know the name of an average of 35 Aztec dignitaries, as well as their role in the war, justice and the embassies. The article wants to show that, as this society did not provide a separation between politics and religion, ...

This article examines the brief but pivotal rule of Cuitlahuatzin, successor of Moctezuma II, during the Mexica resistance to the Spanish invasion. The author analyzes his political actions and military strategies at a ...

”The evangelization of Nahua societies was a complex process that, in the facts, it was developed through concrete, and different, experiences of imposition and negotiation of ideas and practices in which intercultural ...

"The authors present the will of Alonso Begerano with its translation into Spanish and an introduction in which they recall aspects of Begerano’s life and describe the content of this testament, dictated in 1576."

In this article we identify the Dominican Domingo de Betanzos as the anonymous bearer of a rich gift of Mexican objects and codices offered in Bologna to Pope Clement VII (1533), as recorded in the Historie di Bologna ...

The twenty hymns in honor of the Aztec gods, recorded from oral tradition by Bernardino de Sahagún during the first half century after the Spanish conquest, have been studied chiefly by linguists and historians. In general, ...

The conquest of Mexico is generally viewed as a secular sequence of events but these alone did not determine its timing. Several temporal cycles profoundly affected the timing and consequences of both these battles and ...

The word chocolate, which gives name to the most famous beverage of the new World, has been enigmatic. Its etymology and origin have been the subject of discussion and there is no text or source about it until the decade ...