Aztec Codices: What They Tell Us about Daily Life
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Overview
From the migration of the Aztecs to the rise of the empire and its eventual demise, this book covers Aztec history in full, analyzing conceptions of time, religion, and more through codices to offer an inside look at daily life.
This book focuses on two main areas: Aztec history and Aztec culture. Early chapters deal with Aztec history—the first providing a visual record of the story of the Aztec migration and search for their destined homeland of Tenochtitlan, and the second exploring how the Aztecs built their empire.
Later chapters explain life in the Aztec world, focusing on Aztec conceptions of time and religion, the Aztec economy, the life cycle, and daily life. The book ends with an account of the fall of the empire, as illustrated by Aztec artists. With sections concerning a wide variety of topics—from the Aztec pantheon to war, agriculture, childhood, marriage, diet, justice, the arts, and sports, among many others—readers will gain an expansive understanding of life in the Aztec world.
From the migration of the Aztecs to the rise of the empire and its eventual demise, this book covers Aztec history in full, analyzing conceptions of time, religion, and more through codices to offer an inside look at daily life.
Provides an overview of life in the Aztec world and takes as its starting point the books created by Aztec peoples themselves
Explores different topics related to Aztec history, culture, and daily life introduced by a reading of a page from a codex
Elucidates such daily aspects of Aztec life as diet, religion, calendars, economic systems, clothing and adornment, and more
Allows students to gain both an understanding of the Aztec pictorial system of writing and of how the Aztecs lived their lives
Preface
Introduction
The Codices
Chronology of Events
The Mexica Migration
Start of the Migration
The Abandonment of Malinalxochitl
The Settlement at Chapultepec
The Mexica as Mercenaries for Culhuacan
The Foundation of Tenochtitlan
History of the Empire
Aztec Royal Dynasty
Expansion of the Empire
Tepanec War and the Triple Alliance
War with Tlatelolco
The Reign of Moteuczoma II
Calendars
The Sacred Calendar, or Tonalpohualli
Calendar Books, or Tonalamatl
The Count of Years, or Xiuhpohualli
The Aztec Monthly Festivals
The New Fire Ceremony, or Xiuhmolpilli
Divination
Religious Life
Tenochtitlan’s Sacred Precinct
Templo Mayor
The Aztec Pantheon
Human Sacrifice
Priestly Duties
Economy
War
Tribute
Agriculture
Occupations
Merchants and Markets
Life Cycle
Childbirth
Childhood and Education
Marriage
Old Age
Death
Daily Life
Diet
Health and Hygiene
Justice
The Visual Arts
The Performing Arts
Fashion
The Ballgame
Conquest
Spanish Arrival
Massacre at Cholula
Spaniards at Tenochtitlan
The Defeat of Tenochtitlan
Life under Spanish Rule
Index
- Title: Aztec Codices: What They Tell Us about Daily Life
- Author: Lori Boornazian Diel
- Publisher: ABC-CLIO
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 414
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBN: 9798216051015
- Resource ID: LLS:9798216051015
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:52:58Z
Lori Boornazian Diel, PhD, is professor of art history at Texas Christian University.