The Aztec Image in Western Thought

By Benjamin Keen

Book Overview

The great inquiry into the nature of Aztec civilization began at the very moment of its destruction in the name of the Spanish Crown and Church. The overwhelming discovery of a vast, luxurious overseas empire offering fresh evidence of the enormous diversity of customs and opinions among the nations of the earth expanded the imaginative as well as the geographic horizons of Renaissance Europe. In The Aztec Image, Benjamin Keen explores the shifting attitudes and focus of the scores of historians, philosophers, scientists, and men of letters and the arts who dealt with the Aztec theme in the four and a half centuries after the conquest of Mexico. From that time to the present, the world of the ancient Aztecs has been a subject of compelling interest and controversy in the West.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813506980
• ISBN13: 9780813506982
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 667 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.