Chimalpahin's conquest : a Nahua historian's rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico / edited and translated by Susan Schroeder ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón, 1579-1660.

Contributor:

Schroeder, Susan.

López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564.

Series:

Series Chimalpahin.

Series Chimalpahin

Standardized Title:

Conquista de México. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.

Cortés, Hernán.

López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564. Crónica de la Nueva España.

López de Gómara, Francisco.

Nahuas--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.

Nahuas.

Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540--Early works to 1800.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (531 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, La conquista fell into the hands of the seventeenth-century Nahua historian Chimalpahin, who took it upon himself to make a copy of the tome. As he copied, Chimalpahin rewrote large sections of La conquista, adding information about Emperor Moctezuma and other key indigenous people who participated in those first encounters. Chialpahin's Conquest is thus not only the first complete modern English translation of López de Gómara's La conquista, an invaluable source in itself of information about the conquest and native peoples; it also adds Chimalpahin's unique perspective of Nahua culture to what has traditionally been a very Hispanic portrayal of the conquest.

Contents:

Chimalpahin's Conquest

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. The History of Chimalpahin’s “Conquista” Manuscript

II. Reclaiming the Conquest

III. Francisco López de Gómara and La conquista de México

The Conquest of Mexico

Chapter 1. The Birth of Hernando Cortés

Chapter 2. Cortés’s Age When He Sailed to the Indies

Chapter 3. Hernando Cortés’s Stay in Santo Domingo

Chapter 4. Some Things that Happened to Cortés in Cuba

Chapter 5. The Discovery of New Spain, and Other Things

Chapter 6. Juan de Grijalva’s Barter from the Islands of Yucatan and San Juan de Ulúa

Chapter 7. The Conquest of Mexico, and Cortés’s Preparations to Arm the Fleet

Chapter 8. The Men and Ships that Cortés Took for the Conquest

Chapter 9. Cortés Speaks to His Troops with Great Discretion as a Good Captain

Chapter 10. Cortés’s Entry into Acuzamil

Chapter 11. News from the People of Cozumel About the Spanish Interpreter Gerónimo de Aguilar

Chapter 12. Gerónimo de Aguilar Comes to Hernando Cortés

Chapter 13. Cortés Orders the Destruction of the Cozumel Idols

Chapter 14. How the Island Was Named Cozumel Santa Cruz

Chapter 15. The People of Cozumel’s Religion and Temples, or Cues

Chapter 16. In Which Is Told the Story of the Shark, and Other Marvels

Chapter 17. The Tides Rise Greatly at Campeche, but Not Nearby

Chapter 18. The Battle and Capture of Potonchan

Chapter 19. Which Narrates the Battle with the Indians of Potonchan

Chapter 20. Of the Demands and Replies Between Cortés and the People of Potonchan

Chapter 21. The Battle of Cintla, or Tzintla, that Cortés and His Men Fought with the Indians of Cintla

Chapter 22. How the Cacique of Tabasco Befriended the Christians

Chapter 23. Questions that Cortés Asked the Cacique of Tabasco

Chapter 24. How the Indians of Potonchan Destroyed Their Idols and Worshiped the Cross

Chapter 25. On the Río Alvarado, Which the Indians Called Papaloapan

Chapter 26. The Warm Reception Given Cortés in San Juan de Ulúa

Chapter 27. How Cortés Spoke with Teudilli, a Servant of King Moteuczoma

Chapter 28. The Gifts and Response that Moteuczoma Sent to Cortés

Chapter 29. How Cortés Learned that There Were Factions Among the Natives in Those Lands

Chapter 30. How Cortés Explored the Land with Four Hundred Companions

Chapter 31. How Cortés Resigned His Command

Chapter 32. How the Soldiers Made Cortés Captain and Alcalde Mayor

Chapter 33. The Reception Given Cortés in Cempoala

Chapter 34. What the Lord of Cempoala Said to Cortés

Chapter 35. What Occurred or Happened to Cortés at the Port of Quiahuahuiztlan, and Other Remarkable Events

Chapter 36. The Messages that Cortés Sent to King Moteuczoma

Chapter 37. The Rebellion and Alliance Against Moteuczoma Plotted by Cortés

Chapter 38. The Founding of Villa Rica de la Veracruz

Chapter 39. How Cortés Took Tizapancinco124 by Force, and Other Occurrences

Chapter 40. The Gift that Cortés Sent to Emperor Carlos V

Chapter 41. The Letters from the Cabildo and the Army to the Emperor Regarding Cortés’s Appointment as Governor

Chapter 42. The Mutiny Against Cortés, and the Punishment that He Inflicted

Chapter 43. How Cortés, Using Great Cunning, Scuttled His Ships

Chapter 44. The Indians of Tlaxcala [sic]131 Cast Down Their Idols Because of Cortés’s Admonitions

Chapter 45. Olimtletl, Lord of Zaclotan,137 Extols the Might and Greatness of Moteuczoma

Chapter 46. Cortés’s First Clash with the Tlaxcalteca

Chapter 47. How One Hundred and Forty Thousand Gathered Against Cortés

Chapter 48. The Great Threats Made by the Tlaxcalteca Against Our Spaniards

Chapter 49. How Cortés Cut Off the Hands of Fifty Spies

Chapter 50. Moteuczoma’s Embassy to Cortés

Chapter 51. How Cortés Captured Zimpancinco, a Very Large City Subject to Tlaxcala

Chapter 52. On the Wish by Some Spaniards to Abandon the Budding War

Chapter 53. Cortés’s Oration to His Soldiers. On the Address Captain Hernando Cortés Gave to All His Soldiers

Chapter 54. How Captain Xicotencatl Came as Ambassador of Tlaxcala to Cortés’s Camp

Chapter 55. The Reception and Service Given Our Spaniards in the Great City of Tlaxcala

Chapter 56. An Account About Tlaxcala, Its Lifeways, and the Governance of the Republic

Chapter 57. The Tlaxcalteca’s Response to Captain Cortés on Abandoning Their Idols

Chapter 58. On the Great Ancient Enmity that Existed Between the Mexica and the Tlaxcalteca

Chapter 59. The Solemn Reception Given to the Spaniards at Great Cholola

Chapter 60. How the Chololteca Attempted to Betray and Murder the Spaniards

Chapter 61. How Cortés Punished the Chololteca for Their Treason of the Spaniards and Their Friends

Chapter 62. On the Greatness of the City and Sanctuary of Cholola, and the Rites Practiced There

Chapter 63. The Mountain Called Popocatepec

Chapter 64. The Council Held by Moteuczoma Before Allowing Cortés to Go to Mexico

Chapter 65. On What Occurred to Cortés Between Cholola and Mexico

Chapter 66. On the Admirable Reception Given Cortés by King Moteuczoma

Chapter 67. How King Moteuczoma Spoke to the Spaniards, Welcoming Them

Chapter 68. On the Cleanliness and Majesty of King Moteuczoma’s Physical Appearance

Chapter 69. On the Foot Jugglers

Chapter 70. On the Ball Game

Chapter 71. The Dances of Mexico

Chapter 72. The [LdeG: Many] Women that King Moteuczoma Had in the Palace

Chapter 73. The House of Birds Kept for Their Feathers

Chapter 74. The House of Birds for the Hunt

Chapter 75. The Armories

Chapter 76. Moteuczoma’s Gardens

Chapter 77. Moteuzcoma’s Court and Guard

Chapter 78. Everyone Pays Tribute to King Moteuczoma

Chapter 79. On Mexico Tenochtitlan

Chapter 80. The Marketplaces of Mexico

Chapter 81. The Temple of Mexico

Chapter 82. The Idols of Mexico

Chapter 83. The Skull Rack that the Mexica Had as a Reminder of Death

Chapter 84. Cortés Takes Moteuczoma Prisoner

Chapter 85. Moteuczoma’s Hunt

Chapter 86. How Cortés Destroyed the Idols of Mexico

Chapter 87. Cortés’s Speech to the People of Mexico About the Idols

Chapter 88. The Burning of Qualpopoca and Other Noblemen

Chapter 89. The Reason Qualpopoca Was Burned

Chapter 90. How Cortés Shackled Moteuczoma

Chapter 91. Cortés Orders a Search for Gold in Many Places

Chapter 92. The Imprisonment of King Cacamatzin of Tetzcoco

Chapter 93. Moteuczoma’s Oration to His Noblemen, Offering Himself to the King of Castile

Chapter 94. The Gold and Jewels Moteuczoma Gave Cortés

Chapter 95. How Moteuczoma Begged Cortés to Leave Mexico

Chapter 96. How King Moteuczoma Sent for Captain Cortés to Drive Him from the Land

Chapter 97. Cortés and His Men Fear Being Sacrificed

Chapter 98. How Diego Velázquez Sent Pánfilo de Narváez with Many People to Attack Cortés

Chapter 99. What Cortés Wrote to Narváez

Chapter 100. What Pánfilo de Narváez Told [LdeG: the Indians and] Cortés

Chapter 101. What Cortés Told His Men

Chapter 102. Cortés Pleads with Moteuczoma

Chapter 103. The Imprisonment of Pánfilo de Narváez

Chapter 104. The Death Toll from Smallpox

Chapter 105. The Mexica Rebel Against the Spaniards

Chapter 106. The Reasons for the Rebellion

Chapter 107. The Mexica Threaten the Spaniards

Chapter 108. The Dire Straits in Which the Mexica Placed Our People

Chapter 109. The Death of Moteuczoma

Chapter 110. The Fighting Between Them

Chapter 111. The Mexica Refuse the Truces Proposed by Cortés

Chapter 112. How Cortés Fled Mexico

Chapter 113. The Battle at Otumba

Chapter 114. The Welcome Given the Spaniards in Tlaxcala

Chapter 115. What the Soldiers Petitioned Cortés

Chapter 116. Oration in Response to the Official Petition

Chapter 117. The War at Tepeaca

Chapter 118. How the People of Huacachola299 Submitted to Cortés After Killing the Colhuaque

Chapter 119. LdeG: The Capture of Itzocan

Chapter 120.

The Great Authority Cortés Held over the Indians

Chapter 121. The Brigantines Cortés Built, and the Spaniards He Assembled to Fight Mexico

Chapter 122. On Captain Cortés’s Pronouncement to His Men

Chapter 123. Cortés Addresses the Tlaxcalteca

Chapter 124. How Cortés Took Tetzcoco

Chapter 125. The Battle of Iztacpalapan

Chapter 126. The Spaniards Sacrificed at Tetzcoco

Chapter 127. How the Brigantines Were Brought to Tetzcoco by the Tlaxcalteca

Chapter 128. On Cortés’s First View of Mexico in the Company of Friends and Three Hundred Spaniards

Chapter 129. An Account of the War Cortés Waged on the Province of Yacapichtlan

Chapter 130. The Dangers to Our People on Taking Two Peaks, and What Happened Next

Chapter 131. On Cortés’s Battle to Conquer Xochimilco and Its Towns

Chapter 132. On the Canal Cortés Built from Tetzcoco to the Lake to Bring the Brigantines to the Water, and Other Things

Chapter 133. LdeG: Cortés’s Army at the Siege of Mexico

Chapter 134. The Battle and Victory of the Brigantines over the Acales

Chapter 135. How Cortés Lay Siege to Mexico

Chapter 136. The First Skirmish in Mexico

Chapter 137. The General Damage and Burning of Houses

Chapter 138. On the Diligence of Quauhtemoc and Cortés

Chapter 139. How Cortés Had Two Hundred Thousand Men Surround Mexico

Chapter 140. What Pedro de Alvarado Did in Order to Advance

Chapter 141. The Mexica’s Festivities and Sacrifices over a Victory

Chapter 142. The (f. 114v) Conquest of Malinalco, Matlatzinco, and Other Towns

Chapter 143. On Cortés’s Determination to Lay Waste to Mexico

Chapter 144. The Hunger and Ailments that the Mexica Courageously Endured

Chapter 145. The Capture of Quauhtemoc

Chapter 146. On the Capture of Mexico

Chapter 147. Signs and Portents of the Destruction of Mexico

Chapter 148. How Quauhtemoc and Other Lords Were Tortured in Order to Reveal the Treasure at Coyoacan

Chapter 149. The Royal Fifth and Service from the Spoils of Mexico

Chapter 150. How Cazoncin,390 King of Michoacan, Surrendered to Cortés

Chapter 151. The Conquest of Tochtepec and Coatzacoalco by Gonzalo de Sandoval

Chapter 152. The Conquest of Tutepec

Chapter 153. The War at Coliman

Chapter 154. About Cristóbal de Tapia, Who Went to Mexico as Governor

Chapter 155. The War at Pánuco

Chapter 156. How Francisco de Garay Went to Pánuco with a Large Fleet

Chapter 157. The Death of Adelantado Francisco de Garay

Chapter 158. The Pacification of Pánuco

Chapter 159. The Tribulations of Licenciado Alonso Zuazo

Chapter 160. The Conquest of Utlatlan by Pedro de Alvarado

Chapter 161. The Conquest of Guatemala

Chapter 162. The War at Chamolla

Chapter 163. The Fleet Cortés Sent to Las Higueras with Cristóbal de Olid

Chapter 164. The Conquest of the Zapotec Region

Chapter 165. The Rebuilding of Mexico

Chapter 166. How Cortés Took Care to Enrich New Spain

Chapter 167. How the Bishop of Burgos Was Recused [LdeG: from Cortés’s Affairs]

Chapter 168. How Cortés Became Governor

Chapter 169. On the Conquerors

Chapter 170. How Cortés Carried Out the Conversion of the Indians

Chapter 171. The Silver Cannon that Cortés Fashioned for the Emperor

Chapter 172. On the Strait that Many Searched for in the Indies

Chapter 173. How Cristóbal de Olid Rebelled Against Hernando Cortés

Chapter 174. How Cortés Left Mexico to Challenge Cristóbal de Olid

Chapter 175. How Cortés’s Lieutenants Rebelled Against Him in Mexico

Chapter 176. The Imprisonment of the Factor and the Inspector

Chapter 177. The People Cortés Took to Las Higueras

Chapter 178. On the Priests of Tatahuitlapan

Chapter 179. The Bridge Built by Cortés

Chapter 180. On Apoxpalon, Lord of Yzancanac

Chapter 181. The Death of don Hernando de Alvarado Quauhtemoc

Chapter 182. How Canek Burned the Idols

Chapter 183. A Difficult Road Taken by Our Men

Chapter 184. What Cortés Accomplished in Nito

Chapter 185. How Cortés Arrived at Naco

Chapter 186. How Cortés Responded to the Conflict in Mexico

Chapter 187. The War at Papaica

Chapter 188. On Cortés’s Return to New Spain

Chapter 189. On the Celebrations in Mexico in Cortés’s Honor

Chapter 190. How the Emperor Ordered a Residencia Be Taken for Cortés

Chapter 191. The Death of Luis Ponce [de León]

Chapter 192. How Alonso de Estrada Exiled Cortés from Mexico

Chapter 193. How Cortés Sent Ships in Search of the Spice Islands

Chapter 194. How Cortés Came to Spain

Chapter 195. The Favors Granted to Cortés by the Emperor

Chapter 196. On Cortés’s Marriage

Chapter 197. How the Emperor Established an Audiencia in Mexico

Chapter 198. Cortés Returns to Mexico

Chapter 199. How Cortés Explored the South Sea Coast in New Spain

Chapter 200. What Cortés Suffered on Continuing the Exploration of the South [Sea]

Chapter 201. The Sea of Cortés, Also Called Bermejo, or the Crimson Sea

Chapter 202. On Writing in Mexico

Chapter 203. On the Terms for Counting

Chapter 204. On the Mexica Year

Chapter 205. On the Names of the Months

Chapter 206. On the Names of the Days

Chapter 207. On the Year Count

Chapter 208. On the Five Suns that Are Five Ages

Chapter 209. The Chichimeca

Chapter 210. The Acolhuaque

Chapter 211. The Mexica

Chapter 212. Why They Are Called the Acolhuaque

Chapter 213. On the Kings of Mexico

Chapter 214. On Typical Inheritance Practices

Chapter 215. The Swearing In and Coronation of the King

Chapter 216. The Nobility of a Teuctli

Chapter 217. What the Mexica Understand About the Soul

Chapter 218. On the Burial of Kings

Chapter 219. How the Kings of Michoacan Are Cremated for Burial

Chapter 220. On Children

Chapter 221. [LdeG: On the Enclosure of Women]

Chapter 222. On the Many Women

Chapter 223. Marriage Rites

Chapter 224. On Men’s Customs

Chapter 225. On Women’s Customs

Chapter 226. About the Household

Chapter 227. Of Wine and Drunkenness

Chapter 228. On Slaves

Chapter 229. On Judges and Laws

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564. Crónica de la Nueva España.

ISBN:

9780804775069

0804775060

OCLC:

669499270