The Friar And The Maya
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Author | : Matthew Restall |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2023-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1646424247 |
The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original manuscript held by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid. This critical and careful reading of the Account is long overdue in Maya studies and will forever change how this seminal text is understood and used. For generations, scholars used (and misused) the Account as the sole eyewitness insight into an ancient civilization. It is credited to the sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan, monastic inquisitor, and bishop Diego de Landa, whose legacy is complex and contested. His extensive writings on Maya culture and history were lost in the seventeenth century, save for the fragment that is the Account, discovered in the nineteenth century, and accorded near-biblical status in the twentieth as the first “ethnography” of the Maya. However, the Account is not authored by Landa alone; it is a compilation of excerpts, many from writings by other Spaniards—a significant revelation made here for the first time. This new translation accurately reflects the style and vocabulary of the original manuscript. It is augmented by a monograph—comprising an introductory chapter, seven essays, and hundreds of notes—that describes, explains, and analyzes the life and times of Diego de Landa, the Account, and the role it has played in the development of modern Maya studies. The Friar and the Maya is an innovative presentation on an important and previously misunderstood primary source.
Author | : Diego de Landa |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2012-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486139190 |
Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization. 4 maps, and over 120 illustrations.
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Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Indians, Treatment of Yucatán (Mexico : State) |
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Author | : Matthew Restall |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271027584 |
The invasions of Guatemala -- Pedro de Alvarado's letters to Hernando Cortes, 1524 -- Other Spanish accounts -- Nahua accounts -- Maya accounts
Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521527316 |
Author | : Caryll Houselander |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2023-11-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
The Reed of God is an inspirational classic written by a British Roman Catholic ecclesiastical artist, Caryll Houselander. This book contains a beautiful meditation on Mary, Mother of God and so much more. Reading this book will bring you closer to Our Blessed Mother, and hence, to Christ Himself. Filled with lyrical prose and touching analogies, the author shows how Mary was the "Reed of God" and that we are all vessels waiting to do God's work, and carrying Christ within us.
Author | : John Coe Robbins |
Publisher | : John Coe Robbins |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Mayas |
ISBN | : 1611600952 |
Gonzalo -shipwrecked in a violent storm in 1511, he finds himself cast away on an unknown shore in the New World. A fierce tribe enslaves him and the other Spaniards in his small party. With little hope for escape, this brilliant and pragmatic adventurer searches for a way to advance in a strange new culture. Ix Zazil -the spirited and independent daughter of a powerful chieftain, she finds herself surprisingly drawn to the strange foreigner who has been thrust into her life from another world. Jeronimo -lost in the shipwreck with Gonzalo, this uncompromising priest rejects Maya ways, holds fast to his beliefs and remains a slave. Like his fellow survivor, he is convinced he is the better man for his choice. Based on actual people and events, this exotic historical novel follows these driven characters as they chart conflicting courses through a tumultuous world unlike anything they could ever have imagined.
Author | : Garry G. Sparks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Indians of Mexico |
ISBN | : 1607329697 |
Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas--the Theologia Indorum.
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Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2017-07-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190678321 |
The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas. Made available in English translation for the first time, Americas' First Theologies presents a selection of exemplary sections from the Theologia Indorum that illustrate Friar Vico's doctrine of god, cosmogony, moral anthropology, understanding of natural law and biblical history, and constructive engagement with pre-Hispanic Maya religion. Rather than merely condemn the Maya religion, Vico appropriated local terms and images from Maya mythology and rituals that he thought could convey Christianity. His attempt at translating, if not reconfiguring, Christianity for a Maya readership required his mastery of not only numerous Mayan languages but also the highly poetic ceremonial rhetoric of many indigenous Mesoamerican peoples. This book also includes translations of two other pastoral texts (parts of a songbook and a catechism) and eight early documents by K'iche' and Kaqchikel Maya authors who engaged the Theologia Indorum. These texts, written in Highland Mayan languages both by fellow Dominicans and by Highland Maya elites demonstrate the wider influence of Vico's ethnographic approach shared by a particular school of Dominicans. Altogether, The Americas' First Theologies provides a rich documentary case example of the translation, reception, and reaction to Christian thought in the indigenous Americas
Author | : Laurie Coulter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Aztecs |
ISBN | : 9781554511419 |
Describes 100 jobs that an ancient Aztec, Maya, or other Mesoamerican might have had.