Carnet de veille sur les codex américains (Amérique du Nord et Méso-Amérique)
Créateur Résumé The Codex Xolotl, a sixteenth-century painted manuscript made in the Valley of Mexico, is a prime example of Nahua history-writing and map-making. It exhibits hundreds of individual scenes of pre-Invasion history over the course of ten pages of native paper. The...
Créateur Résumé This dissertation contributes to the study of communication design and data visualization by analyzing a set of ancient pictorial manuscripts. It is also aligned with the literature of pictorial statistics, most notably Isotype according to the Vienna Method....
Créateur Résumé This thesis examines the complexities of Aztec religion throughout the Aztec Empire (1350 – 1521 AD) to evaluate potential monotheistic tendencies. This thesis uses Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl’s theory on Tloque Nahuaque and Miguel León-Portilla’s theory on Ometéotl to examine...
Créateur Résumé Devotional literature such as origin narratives, prayer cycles, and hagiographic narratives have long served as vital sources of sociocultural and political information since Mexico’s colonial period. This dissertation specifically examines origin stories and their images in Mexico as...
Créateur Résumé Friar Toribio de Benavente (Motolinía) (c. 1482-1565) had the devil on his mind when he arrived in New Spain in May of 1524. King and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (1500-1558) had ordered the twelve Franciscan “apostles” to...
Créateur Résumé The Aztecs, the empire located in modern Mexico, had a large religious system with a main emphasis on reincarnation. Reincarnation was present through most of the social life and myths of the Aztecs by being the system that...
Créateur Résumé The Cosmovision of the Yucatec Maya is as old as their civilization. Since the arrival of the Spanish and through three centuries of colonialism and conflict, the political maneuverings of Mexican Independence and Revolution, and the incursion of...
Créateur Résumé Mixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec kings and queens...
Créateur Résumé Nezahualcoyotl, the poet-king of Texcoco (1402–1472), has been described as one of the most important pre-Hispanic indigenous figures in historical as well as literary texts. He has been represented as a peaceful symbol of the Aztec civilization: a...
Créateur Résumé In this dissertation, I examine a selection of beautifully illustrated almanacs found in the Borgia Group of Codices: a set of sacred manuscripts drafted in Central Mexico by Indigenous scribes during the 14th -15th centuries ce (the Late Postclassic Period). A growing...
Créateur Résumé Cette thèse étudie plusieurs moments marqués par un intérêt et engouement pour les artefacts précolombiens (ou pensés comme tels) pour comprendre leur présence et usages en France au 19ème s. et avant leur « redécouverte » esthétique au...
Créateur Résumé de thèse El códice Trujillo del Perú, realizado por el obispo Martínez Compañón entre los años 1782 y 1785, comprende una serie de aproximadamente 1400 acuarelas reunidas en nueves tomos, que ilustran los diferentes aspectos de la naturaleza...
Créateur Informations pratiques
Créateur Résumé de thèse Souvent abordée dans les études portant sur le Mexique préhispanique, la question de la religion constitue un sujet de recherche vaste et diversifié. Parmi les multiples aspects relevant du domaine religieux, la nature des différents dieux...
Créateur Résumé El propósito de esta tesis es analizar y valorar con perspectiva histórica los principales trabajos que en mas de cuatro siglos y medio han tenido como objeto al nahuatl que fue lengua franca en mesoamérica a partir del...
Journal de la société des américanistes Amatzin. Carnet de recherches historiographiques sur le náhuat (pipil) Vencer la distancia
