Susan Schroeder
Professor Emerita, Department of History, Tulane University
‘Conquest’ according to Chimalpahin and Alvarado Tezozomoc before and after the Conquest
Abstract:
Nahua authors had their own understanding of the meaning of the term “Conquest,” and Nahua annalists Chimalpahin and Alvarado Tezozomoc employed a specific vocabulary when they wrote about the aftermath of great battles. This paper explores the Nahuatl terminology of conquest as it is known from their extant accounts and compares it with what can be gleaned from a selection of other indigenous annals.
Susan Schroeder is the France Vinton Scholes Professor Emerita of Latin American Colonial History at Tulane University. She specializes in the social history of the native peoples of colonial Mexico, particularly the Nahuas as marginal intellectuals. She has long been interested in the philological study of the native-language writings of the Nahua historian don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin.