El capítulo aborda la vida y el martirio de San Bartolomé, presentado a través de un texto náhuatl que combina elementos narrativos y dramáticos. Karen Dakin examina la estructura del sermón, sus secciones y la utilización ...

This article discusses a religious movement occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century (1769) in a marginal region of New Spain, known as Sierra de Tutotepec (current state of Hidalgo). This was led by an old ...

This review analyzes the book coordinated by Miguel León-Portilla and Alicia Mayer, based on a 2010 conference, which reflects on the role of Indigenous peoples in the 1810 and 1910 revolutions in Mexico. The volume is ...

The present contribution reviews the main characteristic features that define the specific missionary nahuatl variety reflected in Alonso de Molina’s Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana de 1555­1571

This article studies the main postulates that, through out almost four decades, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma has propounded regarding the ancient Mesoamerican world-view, with an special emphasis in the Mexica worldview. The ...

This article explores the Nahuatl word “nahuatlahto,” historically used to refer to a speaker of Nahuatl. Through the analysis of colonial sources, dictionaries, grammars, and modern texts, the author traces the semantic ...

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 ...

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 ...