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Location Call # Volume Status
 Sherman Library  N72.S6 D66 2013    AVAILABLE  
Author Domínguez Torres, Mónica.
Title Military ethos and visual culture in post-conquest Mexico / Mónica Domínguez Torres.
OCLC 833623209
ISBN 9780754666714 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0754666719 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Publisher Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013.
Description xv, 283 pages : some color illustrations ; 24 cm .
LC Subject heading/s Art and society -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century.
Militarism -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century.
Christian art and symbolism -- Mexico -- Modern period, 1500-
Insignia -- Mexico.
Cultural fusion and the arts -- Mexico.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-267) and index.
Contents Grasping the military ethos of sixteenth-century Mexico. European chivalry meets Aztec warfare ; Competing visions of conquest ; The conquest of souls ; Arma, ornamentum, Ixiptla ; Local insignia under Spanish rule -- In the sign of the cross: the making of new Christian knights. Chivalric spirituality for the conversion enterprise ; The cross and the arma Christi as knightly symbols ; Flowery crosses and the discourse of salvation ; The hieroglyphic cross: a memory container ; Sun, blood, movement -- Blazons of Anáhuac and the language of allegiance. Status markers from Spain to the New World ; Heraldic devices for the spiritual conquest ; From place names to municipal heraldry ; Evoking past wars ; Indigenous leadership emblazoned -- The spectacle of war: ancient insignia for the colonial present. Native rulers, ancient heroes ; Indigenous images and the grotesque ; Fashioning war at Ixmiquilpan ; Honoring Tlaxcalan knights ; Military processions, mock battles and the sacred order.
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