Documents of the Coronado expedition, 1539-1542 : "they were not familiar with His Majesty, nor did they wish to be his subjects" / edited, translated, and annotated by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint
- Published
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
- Edition
- University of New Mexico Press pbk. ed.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 746 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Additional Creators
- Flint, Richard, 1946- and Flint, Shirley Cushing
Access Online
- Language Note
- English translations and annotations, with complete transcriptions of the Spanish, Italian, and Nahuatl originals.
- Contents
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; General Introduction; Document 1: Letter of Vázquez de Coronado to the King, December 15, 1538; Document 2: Letter of Vázquez de Coronado to Viceroy Mendoza, March 8, 1539; Document 3: Letter of Vázquez de Coronado to the King, July 15, 1539; Document 4: Letter of the Viceroy to the King, 1539; Document 5: Decree of the King Appointing Vázquez de Coronado Governor of Nueva Galicia, April 18, 1539., Document 6: The Viceroy's Instructions to Fray Marcos de Niza, November 1538, and Narrative Account by Fray Marcos de Niza, August 26, 1539Document 7: Letters from Antonio de Mendoza and Rodrigo de Albornoz, October 1539; Document 8: Testimony of Witnesses in Habana Regarding Fray Marcos's Discoveries, November 1539; Document 9: The Viceroy's Appointment of Vázquez de Coronado to Lead the Expedition, January 6, 1540; Document 10: The King's Confirmation of Vázquez de Coronado's Appointment, June 11, 1540., Document 11: Testimony of Juan Bermejo and of Vázquez de Coronado's Purchasing Agent, Juan Fernández Verdejo, 1552Document 12: Muster Roll of the Expedition, Compostela, February 22, 1540; Document 13: Record of Mexican Indians Participating in the Expedition, 1576; Document 14: Hearing on Depopulation Charges, February 26, 1540; Document 15: Narrative of Alarcón's Voyage, 1540; Document 16: The Viceroy's Instructions to Hernando Alarcón, May 31, 1541; Document 17: The Viceroy's Letter to the King, Jacona, April 17, 1540., Document 18: Hernán Cortés's Brief to Carlos V Concerning the Injuries Done to Him by the Viceroy of Nueva España, June 25, 1540Document 19: Vázquez de Coronado's Letter to the Viceroy, August 3, 1540; Document 20: Formation of a Company between Mendoza and Pedro de Alvarado, Tiripitío, November 29, 1540; Document 21: Account of Pedro de Alvarado's Armada, 1541; Document 22: Traslado de las Nuevas (Anonymous Narrative), 1540; Document 23: La Relación Postrera de Cíbola (Fray Toribio de Benavente's Narrative), 1540s; Document 24: Hernando de Alvarado's Narrative, 1540., and Document 25: Letter from Viceroy Mendoza to Fernández de Oviedo, October 6, 1541Document 26: Vázquez de Coronado's Letter to the King, October 20, 1541; Document 27: Disposal of the Juan Jiménez Estate, 1542 (Copy, 1550); Document 28: The Relación de la Jornada de Cíbola, Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera's Narrative, 1560s (copy, 1596); Document 29: The Relación del Suceso (Anonymous Narrative), 1540s; Document 30: Juan Jaramillo's Narrative, 1560s; Document 31: Juan Troyano's Proof of Service, 1560; Document 32: Melchior Pérez's Petition for Preferment, 1551.
- Summary
- "This volume is the first annotated, dual-language edition of thirty-four original documents from the Coronado expedition. Using the latest historical, archaeological, geographical, and linguistic research, historians and paleographers Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint make available accurate transcriptions and modern English translations of the documents, including seven never before published and seven others never before available in English. The volume includes a general introduction and explanatory notes at the beginning of each document."--Project Muse
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780826351357 (electronic bk.)
0826351352 (electronic bk.)
9780826351340
0826351344 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Note
- Originally published: Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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