On the lips of others [electronic resource] : Moteuczoma's fame in Aztec monuments and rituals / Patrick Thomas Hajovsky.
An interdisciplinary study investigating how the name and portrait of Moteuczoma (a.k.a. Moctezuma/Montezuma) II were represented in Aztec monuments and colonial manuscripts and how the concept of fame operated in the Aztec world.
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2015.
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On the Lips of Others: Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals |
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Contents:
- Introduction
- The two Moteuczomas
- Fame and transformation
- The royal icon
- Resonances of the speech glyph
- Visibility and invisibility of the name glyph
- Absence and presence of body
- The Chapultepec portrait
- Colonial reflections on Aztec portraiture
- Conclusion.