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Johns Hopkins University | AS.215.490

Reading Ancient Mexico Today: Amoxtli, Tlacuilos and the Florentine Codex

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This course offers an in depth study of "Mexican" writing systems before and after the Spanish Conquest in 1521. Special emphasis is placed on the role of the tlacuilos--nathuatl intellectuals-- in the writing of the Florentine Codex (1584), the largest surviving compendium on pre-conquest Mexico.

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