Matthew Restall

A History of the New Philology and the New Philology in History

LA. soutient que, parmi dautres, lune des raisons qui expliquent la vitalite de lethnohistoire de lAmerique centrale coloniale reside dans la dynamique collective (methodologique et interpretative) generee par lecole de pensee identifiee sous lappellation nouvelle philologie. Il propose un apercu historiographique de cette ecole : son histoire et son developpement, sa localisation dans les contextes de lhistoire latino-americaine coloniale et de lethnohistoire mesoamericaine, ses atouts et ses faiblesses, sa trajectoire et sa signification actuelles, ainsi que quelques tendances prospectives. Pour des raisons de place, il centre son propos sur la production en langue anglaise. Il soutient notamment que lavenir de la nouvelle philologie reside plus dans la methode philologique que dans le modele detude des societes autochtones exclusivement a partir de sources autochtones.

Black Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Early Spanish America

“I, Juan Garrido, black resident [de color negro vecino] of this city [Mexico], appear before Your Mercy and state that I am in need of making a probanza to the perpetuity of the king [a perpetuad rey], a report on how I served Your Majesty in the conquest and pacification of this New Spain, from the time when the Marqués del Valle [Cortés] entered it; and in his company I was present at all the invasions and conquests and pacifications which were carried out, always with the said Marqués, all of which I did at my own expense without being given either salary or allotment of natives [repartimiento de indios] or anything else. As I am married and a resident of this city, where I have always lived; and also as I went with the Marqués del Valle to discover the islands which are in that part of the southern sea [the Pacific] where there was much hunger and privation; and also as I went to discover and pacify the islands of San Juan de Buriquén de Puerto Rico; and also as I went on the pacification and conquest of the island of Cuba with the adelantado Diego Velázquez; in all these ways for thirty years have I served and continue to serve Your Majesty—for these reasons stated above do I petition Your Mercy. And also because I was the first to have the inspiration to sow maize here in New Spain and to see if it took; I did this and experimented at my own expense.”

Mesoamerican voices : native-language writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala

Part I: 1. Mesoamericans and Spaniards in the sixteenth century 2. Literacy in colonial Mesoamerica Part II: 3. Views of the conquest 4. Political life 5. Household and land 6. Society and gender 7. Crime and punishment 8. Religious life 9. Rhetoric and moral philosophy.