Mark Z Christensen: 2 books
The Teabo Manuscript
Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Among the surviving documents from the colonial period in Mexico are rare Maya-authored manuscript compilations of Christian texts, translated and adapted into the Maya language and worldview, which were used to evangelize the local population. The Morely Manuscript is well known to scholars, and now...
Translated Christianities
Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers...