Sahagún
The Florentine Codex
Narratives
Misc
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What country is Sahagún from?
Spain
100
What language was the Florentine Codex originally written in?
Nahuatl
100
What was Sahagun's end goal?
Christianization of New Spain
100
Who are the Nahua and where are they from?
indigenous peoples in Central Mexico
200
Which field did Bernardino de Sahagun not study?
a) Theology b) Latin c) Archaeology d) Philosophy
C) Archaeology
200
What does this image depict?
Aztec warriors
200
What was one of Sahagun's criticisms of Spanish Conquest?
Conquistadors didn’t acknowledged the Aztec as capable humans, destroyed pre-existing government institutions, saw Indians as credible witnesses, etc
200
Who were the Franciscans?
Catholics who followed mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church
300
Why was his work confiscated?
Seen as a dangerous record of sacrilegious practice
300
What is book 12 an account of?
The invasion of the Aztec Empire by Cortes and his troops
300
In what 3 ways was the Florentine Codex told?
In Nahua, in Spanish, in illustrations
300
What is this a depiction of?
The death of Montezuma (Book 12)
400
Who did Sahagun work with throughout his ethnography?
Spanish speaking Indian disciples and local Nahua (responders + assistants)
400
What is the original name of the Florentine Codex?
General History of Matters in New Spain (Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España)
400
What are the three potential filters in this narrative, according to Victoria Rios Castano)?
Responders: self censoring their cultural and religious accounts out of wariness of Spanish intentions and awareness of Sahagun’s hostility
Assistants- may have altered the elder’s responses to better fit what they were taught in their university
Sahagun- changed Nahua’s accounts for his missionary audience
400
Who translated the Florentine Codex into English?
Arthur Anderson, Charles Dibble, and James Lockhart
500
What year was Bernardino de Sahagun ordained as a Franciscan friar?
1527
500
Name 4 books from the Florentine Codex
(1) The Gods; (2) The Ceremonies; (3) The Origin of the Gods; (4) The Soothsayers; (5) The Omens; (6) Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy; (7) The Sun, Moon, and Stars and the Binding of the Years; (8) Kings and Lords; (9) The Merchants; (10) The People; (11) Earthly Things; (12) The Conquest
500
Whose point of view is this from Chapter 25? “They started killing and stabbing people...The Spaniards took out their rage on them, vented their wrath on them when they had done the killing.”
The Nahua
500
Before the Spanish were kicked out of Tenochtitlan, the Nahua claimed there were _____ civil days, whereas the Spanish claim there were ____.
1) 195
2) 85