Lori Boornazian Diel, professor of art history, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
About sixty years after the Spanish invasion and conquest, a group of Aztec intellectuals gathered in Mexico City, capital of New Spain, and set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea known today as the Codex Mexicanus. The Codex includes records pertaining to the Aztec and Christian calendars and European medical astrology, as well as an extensive history of the Aztec empire. By providing an overview of the manuscript, this talk will reveal how the Codex's seemingly disparate contents come together to communicate an identity for New Spain as a modern Christian nation founded on an Aztec past of great renown.
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