This review by Ascensión Hernández Triviño focuses on the critical edition of Arte y vocabulario del idioma huasteco (1717), a colonial-era manuscript written by Severino Bernardo de Quirós. The edition, prepared by Bernhard ...

On the basis of the thorough study of the military actions carried out by the Tenochca tlatoque, as theyare described in Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc’s Crónica Mexicana (1598), this article proposes that there is an important ...

The 1561 letter from the Nahua governors of Azcapotzalco to Philip II has long been recognised as a crucial source for the history of the Tepanec empire under Tezozomoc, which was a model for later Aztec domination. The ...

Pilar Máynez presents in this work the paleographic transcription and translation of Chapter Seven from the Florentine Codex’s book on divinatory arts. The Nahuatl text recounts ritual practices, signs, and omens used by ...

This review by Ignacio De la Garza Gálvez analyzes Miccacuicatl by Patrick Johansson, which explores the funerary rites of Mexica lords through historical sources, myths, and ritual chants. It highlights the integration ...

In this review, Lucero Pacheco Ávila discusses the digital edition El Colegio de Tlatelolco. Síntesis de historias, lenguas y culturas, edited by Esther Hernández and Pilar Máynez. The book brings together thirteen scholarly ...

This paper studies both the Ahuitzotl Box fragment at the British Museum as well as the lid at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, and moves away from previous interpretations, mainly those of Seler, Umberger and Pasztory’s. ...

The essay examines the use of monochrome in a few illustrations of the Florentine Codex in relationship to the theme represented, the corresponding text and the general layout of the work as a whole. It argues that monochrome ...

“Blackness” seems to have been part of a wide conceptual core within Mesoamerican religion. In this essay, we analyse the concept of “Blackness” and its possible meanings as a reference of space within indigenous religion, ...