We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (Repertorium Columbianium)

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Historians are concerned nowadays that the Spaniards’ early accounts of their first experiences with the Indians in the Americas will have to be balanced with accounts from the Indian point of view. We People Here reflects that concern, bringing together vital and revealing documents written in the Nahuatl language in sixteenth-century Mexico. James Lockhart’s superior translation combines recent English with probably the most up-to-date, nuanced understanding of Nahuatl grammar and meaning.

The foremost Nahuatl conquest account is Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex. On this monumental work, Fray Bernardino de SahagĂșn commissioned Nahuas to collect and record in their own language accounts of the conquest of Mexico; he then added a parallel Spanish account that may be part summary, part elaboration of the Nahuatl. Now, for the first time, the Nahuatl and Spanish texts are together in one volume with en face English translations and reproductions of the copious illustrations from the Codex. Also included are five other Nahua conquest texts. Lockhart’s introduction discusses every one for my part, placing the narratives in context.
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