Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico

ISBN-13: 9780197586358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 496 str.

Andrew (John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classic

Recenzje

Aztec Latin is important for several reasons. It explains how and why alphabetic writing, Latin, and humanism spread among indigenous elites in colonial Mexico; it uncovers the work of Amerindian scholars who mastered classical and biblical legacies which today are little known; and it revisits the politics of Spanish colonization in the Americas. Andrew Laird's book means that the contribution native Mexicans made to early modern intellectual history can no longer be ignored.

O autorze

Andrew Laird is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities at Brown University. His previous publications include Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power; The Epic of America; and, as editor with Carlo Caruso, Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600.