Title: La "memoria artificial" en la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, de Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Description: Critical re-reading of essential document in history of Spanish conquest, by "uncomfortable" witness, soldier of fortune and later colonial administrator, Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1496-1584). Seeks to understand arts of memory and associated rhetoric used in completing his manuscript almost 50 years after events it describes. Author is respected historian and first lady of Mexico.
Subjects: Memory, Social aspects, History
Places: Mexico
People: Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1496-1584)
Time periods: Conquest, 1519-1540