Parution : Military ethos and visual culture in post-conquest Mexico

Créateur

• Domínguez Torres, Mónica. Auteur

Mónica Domínguez Torres is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware, USA.

Résumé de l’éditeur

Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Mónica Domínguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the ‘conquest’ in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures; and that certain interconnections between martial, social and religious elements resonated with similar intensity among Mesoamericans and Europeans, creating indeed cultural bridges between these diverse communities. Multidisciplinary in approach, this study builds on scholarship in the fields of visual, literary and cultural studies to analyse the European and Mesoamerican content of the martial imagery fostered within the indigenous settlements of central Mexico, as well as the ways in which local communities and leaders appropriated, manipulated, modified and reinterpreted foreign visual codes. Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico draws on post-structuralist and post-colonial approaches to analyse the complex dynamics of identity formation in colonial communities.

Sommaire

• Grasping the military ethos of sixteenth-century Mexico
• European chivalry meets Aztec warfare
• Competing visions of conquest
• The conquest of souls
• Arma, ornamentum, Ixiptla
• Local insignia under Spanish rule
• In the sign of the cross : the making of new Christian knights
• Chivalric spirituality for the conversion enterprise
• The cross and the arma Christi as knightly symbols
• Flowery crosses and the discourse of salvation
• The hieroglyphic cross : a memory container
• Sun, blood, movement
• Blazons of Anáhuac and the language of allegiance
• Status markers from Spain to the New World
• Heraldic devices for the spiritual conquest
• From place names to municipal heraldry
• Evoking past wars
• Indigenous leadership emblazoned
• The spectacle of war : ancient insignia for the colonial present
• Native rulers, ancient heroes
• Indigenous images and the grotesque
• Fashioning war at Ixmiquilpan
• Honoring Tlaxcalan knights
• Military processions, mock battles and the sacred order

Informations pratiques

• Éditeur : Burlington, VT ; Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate
• Date de parution : cop. 2013
• Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-283 p.-[8] p. de pl.) : ill. en noir et en coul., fac-sim. ; 24 cm
• Collection : (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700).
• Thèse : Texte remanié de : doctoral dissertation : [Histoire] : University of Toronto : 2004
• Annexes : Bibliogr. p. [229]-267. Notes bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Index
• ISBN 978-0-7546-6671-4 (rel.). – EAN 9780754666714

Localisations

• BORDEAUX MONTAIGNE BU LSH
• MADRID-Casa de Velázquez
• PARIS-BIS, Fonds général
• PARIS-BnF
• PARIS-INHA
• PARIS-Médiathèque MQB

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