Parution : The Codex Borbonicus veintena imagery : visualizing history, time, and ritual in Aztec solar-year festivals
Créateur
- DiCesare, Catherine
Catherine R. DiCesare is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Pre-Columbian Art History. Her specialty is the art of the ancient Americas. Her research focuses primarily on Mexican pictorial manuscripts, calendars, and rituals.
Compte rendu
- Driggers, Kristopher, « Catherine DiCesare, The Codex Borbonicus Veintena Imagery: Visualizing History, Time, and Ritual in Aztec Solar-Year Festivals », College Art Association. Reviews, May 5, 2025. DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2025.30. Disponible sur Internet, url : <http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/4303>.
Résumé
The sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the Codex Borbonicus contains a remarkable record of the eighteen Mexica (or “Aztec”) festival periods of twenty days, known as veintenas, celebrated during the 365-day solar year. Because its indigenous artists framed the Borbonicus veintenas with historical year dates, this volume situates the annually recurring rituals within the march of linear, reckoned time, in the singular year “2 Reed” (1507), during the reign of Moteuczoma II. DiCesare attends to the historical dimensions of several unusual scenes, proposing that the veintenas probably varied significantly from year to year in response to historical concerns. She considers particularly whether the Borbonicus veintenas document the confluence of solar year ceremonies with a second set of ritual feast days, governed by the 260-day cycle known as the tonalpohualli, or “count of days.” In this way, DiCesare analyzes how linear and cyclical conceptions of time intersected in Mexica ritual performance
Sommaire
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Time, History, and the Calendars of the Mexican Codex Borbonicus
- Chapter 2: Tlaloc Rites and Mountain Feasts: The Veintena Festivals of Tozoztontli and Huey Tozoztli
- Chapter 3: In Search of Jades and Quetzal Plumes: The Veintena Feasts of Tecuilhuitontli and Huey Tecuilhuitl
- Chapter 4: Pulque Revelry in the Mexican Veintena of Quecholli
- Chapter 5: The Emergence of a New Sun: The Veintena of Panquetzaliztli and the New Fire Ceremony
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
Informations pratiques
- Éditeur : Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
- Date de parution : 2024
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (207 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
- Collection : (Visual and material culture, 1300-1700, ISSN 2772-9877 ; 56).
- Annexes : Bibliographie pages 190-198. Notes bibliographiques. Index
- ISBN 978-9-4637-2139-4 (broché). – ISBN 94-6372-139-8
- EAN 9789463721394 (broché)
- Sujets :
- Codex Borbonicus
- Aztèques — Rites et cérémonies — 16e siècle
Localisations
- PARIS-BIS, Fonds général
- Absent à la BnF (en 2025)
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Olivier Jacquot (26 octobre 2025). Parution : The Codex Borbonicus veintena imagery : visualizing history, time, and ritual in Aztec solar-year festivals. Amoxcalli. Consulté le 17 avril 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/151f5

