1st Edition
The Codex Borbonicus Veintena Imagery Visualizing History, Time, and Ritual in Aztec Solar-Year Festivals
By Catherine DiCesare
Copyright 2024
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the Codex Borbonicus contains a remarkable record of the eighteen Mexica (or “Aztec”) festival periods of twenty days, known as veintenas, celebrated during the 365-day solar year. Because its indigenous artists framed the Borbonicus veintenas with historical year dates, this volume situates the annually recurring rituals within the march of... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: Time, History, and the Calendars of the Mexican Codex Borbonicus, Chapter 2: Tlaloc Rites and Mountain Feasts: The Veintena Festivals of Tozoztontli and Huey Tozoztli, Chapter 3: In Search of Jades and Quetzal Plumes: The Veintena Feasts of Tecuilhuitontli and Huey Tecuilhuitl, Chapter 4: Pulque Revelry in the Mexican Veintena of Quecholli, Chapter 5: The Emergence of a New Sun: The Veintena of Panquetzaliztli and the New Fire Ceremony, Concluding Remarks, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Catherine R. DiCesare is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Pre-Columbian Art History. Her specialty is the art of the ancient Americas. Her research focuses primarily on Mexican pictorial manuscripts, calendars, and rituals.
