An emperor's heraldry, a pope's portrait and the "Cortés map of Tenochtitlan": the "Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii" as an evangelical announcement
This essay considers four woodcut images included in the Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii in order to position the Nuremberg codex as an announcement to Europe of the Spanish monarchy’s evangelical ideology regarding the New World. The images enabled the codex to herald the transformation of New Spain f...
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| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publ.
[2016]
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2016, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 371-399 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBH Iberian Peninsula KBR Latin America RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Indigenous peoples of Mexico
Religion
History
B D'Anghiera, Peter Martyr B Mappae mundi B Spain Foreign public opinion, European B Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 B Mexico Description & travel Early works to 1800 B Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii (Book) B Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558 |
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| Summary: | This essay considers four woodcut images included in the Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii in order to position the Nuremberg codex as an announcement to Europe of the Spanish monarchy’s evangelical ideology regarding the New World. The images enabled the codex to herald the transformation of New Spain from idolatry to Christianity under the control and direction of the Spanish Habsburg king and with the blessing and sanction of the pope. The image of Pope Clement VII highlights the papacy’s role in the New World’s spiritual formation, providing the linchpin for understanding the volume in a new way. Coupled with the other texts and images, it helped communicate the impending establishment of that world as Christian. I link apocryphal images of Jerusalem and medieval mappae mundi to the organization of the Map of Tenochtitlan, and suggest that Renaissance concepts of Ambrosius Holbein’s image Utopia, provided a model. |
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| ISSN: | 0361-0160 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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