Overview

This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, this manuscript includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originated in the Peten region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatan and was painted in the Pre-Columbian era. In addition, several contributors reveal provocative connections among the Madrid and Borgia group of codices from Central Mexico. Contributors include: Harvey M. Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, John F. Chuchiak IV, Christine L. Hernandez, Bryan R. Just, Merideth Paxton, and John Pohl. Additional support for this publication was generously provided by the Eugene M. Kayden Fund at the University of Colorado.

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Author:   Gabrielle Vail ,  Anthony Aveni
Publisher:   University Press of Colorado
Imprint:   University Press of Colorado
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.631kg
ISBN:  

9780870819391

ISBN 10:   0870819399
Pages:   468
Publication Date:   31 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by David Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Preface Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Abbreviations 1 Research Methodologies and New Approaches to Interpreting the Madrid Codex, Gabrielle Vail and Anthony F. Aveni Part I Provenience and Dating of the Madrid Codex 2 The Paper Patch on Page 56 of the Madrid Codex, Harvey M. Bricker 3 Papal Bulls, Extirpators, and the Madrid Codex: The Content and Probable Provenience of the M. 56 Patch, John F. Chuchiak 4 Tayasal Origin of the Madrid Codex: Further Consideration of the Theory, Merideth Paxton Part II Calendrical Models and Methodologies for Examining the Madrid Almanacs 5 Maya Calendars and Dates: Interpreting the Calendrical Structure of Maya Almanacs, Gabrielle Vail and Anthony F. Aveni 6 Intervallic Structure and Cognate Almanacs in the Madrid and Dresden Codices, Anthony F. Aveni 7 Haab Dates in the Madrid Codex, Gabrielle Vail and Victoria R. Bricker 8 A Reinterpretation of Tzolk'in Almanacs in the Madrid Codex, Gabrielle Vail Part III Connections Among the Madrid and Borgia Group Codices 9 In Extenso Almanacs in the Madrid Codex, Bryan R. Just 10 The Inauguration of Planting in the Borgia and Madrid Codices, Christine Hern ndez and Victoria R. Bricker 11 ""Yearbearer Pages"" and Their Connection to Planting Almanacs in the Borgia Codex, Christine Hern ndez Part IV The Madrid Codex in the Context of Mesoamerican Traditions 12 Screenfold Manuscripts of Highland Mexico and Their Possible Influence on Codex Madrid: A Summary, John M.D. Pohl Index"

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The exciting new approaches to interpreting the codices will make this a volume essential for those studying the Postclassic Maya. The exciting new approaches to interpreting the codices will make this a volume essential for those studying the Postclassic Maya. - Susan Milbrath, University of Florida I cannot think of another interdisciplinary study in Mesoamerican cultures that has produced such innovative results. - David Carrasco, Harvard University The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex, on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. - Antiquity The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex, on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. - Antiquity The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex, on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. -- Antiquity mericas I cannot think of another interdisciplinary study in Mesoamerican cultures that has produced such innovative results. --Dav d Carrasco, Harvard University The exciting new approaches to interpreting the codices will make this a volume essential for those studying the Postclassic Maya. --Susan Milbrath, University of Florida The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex , on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. -- Antiquity

The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex , on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. - Antiquity

I cannot think of another interdisciplinary study in Mesoamerican cultures that has produced such innovative results. - Dav d Carrasco, Harvard University The exciting new approaches to interpreting the codices will make this a volume essential for those studying the Postclassic Maya. - Susan Milbrath, University of Florida The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex, on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. - Antiquity

I cannot think of another interdisciplinary study in Mesoamerican cultures that has produced such innovative results. - David Carrasco, Harvard University The exciting new approaches to interpreting the codices will make this a volume essential for those studying the Postclassic Maya. - Susan Milbrath, University of Florida The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex, on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. - Antiquity

The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex, on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. <p>a Antiquity

<p> The Madrid Codex offers a new and nuanced understanding of one of the few surviving Maya hieroglyphic books, a porthole into the ancient Maya mind and a poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. [It is] a barrage of scholarship from leading scholars in everything from iconography to archaeoastronomy. . . . The Madrid Codex, on the basis of the impressive scholarship in every chapter of this book, now takes its place as a crucial document of this cultural ferment and fusion. <p>-- Antiquity mericas

Author Information

Gabrielle Vail is a research scholar at New College of Florida and a specialist in Maya hieroglyphic writing. She is the coeditor of Papers on the Madrid Codex (with Victoria Bricker). Anthony Aveni is the Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropolgy, and Native Amerifan Studies at Colgate University. He has researched and written about Maya Astronomy for more than four decades. He was named a U.S. National Professor of the year and has been awarded the H.B. Nicholson Medal for Excellence in Research in Mesoamerican Studies by Harvard's Peabody Museum.

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