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This article studies sixteenth-century English views of Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs and the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the framework of the Atlantic world. It analyses the process by which English scholars and politicians collated, understood, appropriated and used information about Mexico – circulating in the rest of Europe – to produce their own...
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... concordance with the modus operandi of many contemporary authors throughout Europe, 39 Sylva freely collected his information from diverse sources, none of which he took pains to quote. Fortunately, it is possible to trace the sources and influences on Sylva's map of Tenochtitlan and to situate it within the framework of extant European maps and images of the same city that circulated in Europe around at the time (Figure 2). Sylva's image was an identical copy, in colour, of a map of Tenochtitlan that the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius had included in his first production, Nova totius terrarium orbis, printed in Antwerp in 1564. ...
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... concordance with the modus operandi of many contemporary authors throughout Europe, 39 Sylva freely collected his information from diverse sources, none of which he took pains to quote. Fortunately, it is possible to trace the sources and influences on Sylva's map of Tenochtitlan and to situate it within the framework of extant European maps and images of the same city that circulated in Europe around at the time (Figure 2). Sylva's image was an identical copy, in colour, of a map of Tenochtitlan that the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius had included in his first production, Nova totius terrarium orbis, printed in Antwerp in 1564. ...
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A través de la presentación y análisis de los documentos que fueron publicados en Inglaterra en el siglo xvi, este artículo aborda la génesis del proceso de construcción de visiones inglesas sobre la región que hoy se identifica como maya. En un contexto marcado por crecientes tensiones con España, la región maya —convenientemente cercana a los bastiones ingleses establecidos en el Caribe— fue vista por algunos en Inglaterra como una zona estratégica para mermar el poder español y promover las nacientes ambiciones imperiales inglesas.
