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Zusatztext Awarded a Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant from the College Art Association! 2011 'Carefully researched and theoretically sophisticated! this study examines the emergency of new military imagery in the context of competing military ideologies - Spanish and Pre-Columbian - in colonial New Spain. From the creation of new heraldic devices with indigenous elements! to the colonial transformation of European heraldry! ruler portraits in Mexican codices! and military imagery in monastic complexes! as well as the martial symbolism of atrial crosses! Domínguez's important study documents the fashioning and refashioning of images associated with two different military cultures in an era of conquest.' Charlene Villaseñor Black! UCLA! USA '... this book is well researched! well written! and a welcome contribution. It will surely provoke further discussions about indigenous cultural transitions under Spanish colonialism.' Renaissance Quarterly 'This is a very detailed and carefully researched book! as shown by the very extensive bibliography that concludes it. It paints a fascinating picture of apparently incompatible cultures merging together through a shared system of beliefs in a warrior code. In the process the author also provides much enlightenment on the nature of the martial ethos that existing in each society prior to their joining.' Arquebusier Informationen zum Autor Mónica Domínguez Torres is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware! USA. Klappentext Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico! Monica Dominguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the "conquest" in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures. Zusammenfassung Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Monica Dominguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the "conquest" in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Grasping the military ethos of 16th-century Mexico; In the sign of the Cross: the making of new Christian knights; Blazons of Anáhuac and the language of allegiance; The spectacle of war: ancient insignia for the colonial present; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. ...
