Miguel
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
xvi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own? In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, an expansion of his classic Trece poetas del mundo azteca, Miguel Leon-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of...
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 190
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1988.
Physical Desc
xxii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 8 hr.) : digital, MP3 file ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel LeA?n-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears , LeA?n-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the...
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 92
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English