The Broken Spears

by Leon-Portilla, Miguel

• ISBN13: 9780807055014
• ISBN10: 0807055018
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-05-04
• Publisher: Beacon Pr

Summary

In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii	(2)
Translator's Note	ix	(2)
Foreword	xi	(14)
Introduction	xxv
Chapter One Omens Foretelling the Arrival of the Spaniards	3	(10)
Chapter Two First Reports of the Spaniards' Arrival	13	(8)
Chapter Three The Messengers' Journeys	21	(11)
Chapter Four Motecuhzoma's Terror and Apathy	32	(5)
Chapter Five The Spaniards March on Tlaxcala and Cholula	37	(13)
Chapter Six The Gifts of Gold: The God Tezcatlipoca Appears	50	(6)
Chapter Seven The Spaniards Are Welcomed in Tezcoco	56	(6)
Chapter Eight The Spaniards Arrive in Tenochtitlan	62	(8)
Chapter Nine The Massacre in the Main Temple during the Fiesta of Toxcatl	70	(13)
Chapter Ten The Night of Sorrows	83	(8)
Chapter Eleven The Siege of Tenochtitlan	91	(12)
Chapter Twelve Spanish Raids into the Besieged City	103	(12)
Chapter Thirteen The Surrender of Tenochtitlan	115	(12)
Chapter Fourteen The Story of the Conquest as Told by the Anonymous Authors of Tlatelolco	127	(18)
Chapter Fifteen Elegies on the Fall of the City	145	(5)
Chapter Sixteen Aftermath	150	(25)
Appendix	175	(8)
Selected Bibliography	183	(6)
Index	189