The Aztec Image in Western Thought

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The great inquiry into the nature of Aztec civilization started at the very moment of its destruction in the name of the Spanish Crown and Church. The overwhelming discovery of a vast, luxurious in a foreign country empire offering fresh evidence of the enormous diversity of customs and opinions a number of the nations of the earth expanded the imaginative in addition to the geographic horizons of Renaissance Europe. In The Aztec Image, Benjamin Keen explores the shifting attitudes and focal point of the scores of historians, philosophers, scientists, and men of letters and the arts who dealt with the Aztec theme in the four and a half centuries after the conquest of Mexico. From that time to the present, the world of the ancient Aztecs has been a topic of compelling interest and controversy in the West.

Keen explains how each and every new view frequently corrected and developed, the Western conception of Aztec civilization. He relates prevailing ideas about the Aztecs to the broad socioeconomic, political, and ideological patterns of the age, in addition to to the up to date state of knowledge about ancient Mexico. A comprehensive work of historiography, Keen’s book is the first to encompass the sweep of Western thought at the Aztecs from Cortes to the present.

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