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

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Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico - Laird, Andrew
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Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of ...

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Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico 2024, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197586358

Hardcover