The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript by Vail, Gabrielle

The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870819391)

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The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript by Vail, Gabrielle

The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript

$40.95
The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript by Vail, Gabrielle

The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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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 Petén region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatán 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. Hernández, 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.



Author: Gabrielle Vail
ISBN-10: 0870819399
ISBN-13: 9780870819391
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 468
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
By Gabrielle Vail
By Gabrielle Vail
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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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