The Handover Power from Motecuhzoma. A Critical Proposal

This article is a critical review of the act of handing over power and submission attributed to Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, in favor of Carlos I of Spain, through the intermedition of Captain Hernando Cortés. This fundamental passage in the history of the conquest of Tenochtitlan has had significant leg...

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Autor: Pastrana Flores, Miguel Gabriel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Historia Novohispana
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/72727
Acceso en línea:https://novohispana.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehn/article/view/72727
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Motecuhzoma
Hernando Cortés
Conquista de México
poder político
pérdida del poder
tlahtoani
Excan Tlahtoloyan
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Sumario:This article is a critical review of the act of handing over power and submission attributed to Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, in favor of Carlos I of Spain, through the intermedition of Captain Hernando Cortés. This fundamental passage in the history of the conquest of Tenochtitlan has had significant legal, political and historiographic implications to this day; therefore, it has been the subject of various analyzes from the perspective of European culture. However, the problem has been little explored, not only from the Spanish legal, political, documentary and historiographical perspective, but also not about what is known about the institutions, beliefs and political practices of the ancient Nahuas. This paper studies the Nahuatl perspective of the matter.