The Madrid Codex - New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript

Klappentext This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, the Madrid Codex includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originated in the PetA(c)n region of Guatemala and post-dates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern YucatAn and was painted in the Pre-Columbian era. In addition, several contributors reveal provocative connections among the Madrid and Borgia group of codices from Central Mexico. Zusammenfassung Offers fresh calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. This book includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries AD.

Product details

• Authors: Gabrielle (EDT)/ Aveni Vail
• Assisted by: Anthony Aveni (Editor), Anthony F. Aveni (Editor), Gabrielle Vail (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2009
• EAN: 9780870819391
• ISBN: 978-0-87081-939-1
• Series: Mesoamerican Worlds: From the
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity