Annals of his time
Subtitle: don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin
By: edited and translated by James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala.
Contributors: Lockhart, James.; Schroeder, Susan.; Namala, Doris.
Series: Series Chimalpahin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng; nah
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón, 1579-1660; Manuscripts, Nahuatl -- Mexico -- Mexico City; Aztecs -- History; Aztecs -- Politics and government; Aztecs -- Social life and customs
Description: "Among the native-language documents written by the Nahuas of central Mexico after Spanish contact, the annals genre gave them the freest rein in expressing themselves. The premier practitioner of the Nahuatl annals form was a writer of the early seventeenth century now known as Chimalpahin. Until recently, attention went primarily to his writings about precontact events. Now Chimalpahin's equally important writings about his own time have begun to come to the fore; the present volume is the first English edition of Chimalpahin's largest work, written during the first two decades of the seventeenth century.

The great immediate value of the material is that it shows the Mexico City of the author's time, both Spanish and indigenous, as a cultured Nahua viewed it, and reveals the Nahuatl social and cultural vocabulary of that era. Among entries reporting run-of-the-mill events, the annals contain much color and humanity." "The edition features a faithful transcription and a very readable translation. The apparatus includes telling new analysis of both language and content."--Jacket.
Notes: Introduction in English; English and Nahuatl on opposite pages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.