Description: Further DetailsTitle: Aztec LatinCondition: NewSubtitle: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial MexicoISBN-10: 019758635XEAN: 9780197586358ISBN: 9780197586358Publisher: Oxford University Press IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/29/2024Description: In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric, and Aristotelian philosophy to native youths in central Mexico. The remarkable linguistic and cultural exchanges that would result from that initiative are the subject of this book. Aztec Latin highlights the importance of Renaissance humanist education for early colonial indigenous history, showing how practices central to humanism — the cultivation of eloquence, the training of leaders, scholarly translation, and antiquarian research — were transformed in New Spain to serve Indian elites as well as the Spanish authorities and religious orders. While Franciscan friars, inspired by Erasmus' ideal of a common tongue, applied principles of Latin grammar to Amerindian languages, native scholars translated the Gospels, a range of devotional literature, and even Aesop's fables into the Mexican language of Nahuatl. They also produced significant new writings in Latin and Nahuatl, adorning accounts of their ancestral past with parallels from Greek and Roman history and importing themes from classical and Christian sources to interpret pre-Hispanic customs and beliefs. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 226mmItem Length: 155mmItem Width: 38mmItem Weight: 862gAuthor: Andrew LairdGenre: HistoryTopic: Ancient History, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Aztec Latin
Title: Aztec Latin
Subtitle: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mex
ISBN-10: 019758635X
EAN: 9780197586358
ISBN: 9780197586358
Release Date: 08/29/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Name: Aztec Latin : Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.5 in
Subject: Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 30.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Andrew Laird
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
