Conquest of Mexico reported by the chroniclers who accompanied Hernán Cortés and detailed his struggles and we alliances with the descendants of the Mayas and Aztecs Moctezuma.
Cronista is the writer who collects and writes historical or current facts, which are called chronic.
Before the emergence of modern journalism and systematization of the chronicle as a journalistic genre, writer he was the writer who chronicled the events deemed worthy of remembrance (of "make history") recorded systematically over time (eg, year to year); the term was almost equivalent to historian. Unlike anonymous or known writers of epics, historians and chroniclers were distinguished by their will to truth in their stories; which often they dated back from antiquity to contemporary events, more or less plausible ways.
Although commonly referred to as "chroniclers" to all who wrote about the territories of the Spanish Empire overseas, only part of them had the official appointment of greatest chronicler of the Indies, granted by the king of Spain.
The charge was instituted in 1571 by Philip II, had for life, residing in court, and depended on the Council of the Indies until 1744, when Felipe V ordered his transfer to Real Academia de la Historia, created 6 years ago. Notwithstanding this provision, yet Fernando VI and Carlos III appointed to fill this job to one candidate.
After arrival in America by Europeans, their stories reporting on geography and way of life of Latin American indigenous his son Hernando, the famous letter of Américo Vespucio and met, from the relations of Christopher Columbus himself, many other discoverers and conquistadors like Hernan Cortes.
Many chroniclers focused on specific geographical areas, making regional chronicles some of the viceroys of America.
In the app relate the "Chroniclers of the Indies" which detailed information not only with the time of conquest but also the decades of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. We also try to give the vision of the conquered, not only of the conquistadors, with the biography of the author and highlighting its most representative versions with links to "free" (18 books) for easy reading work.
We incorporate also a last page called links PDF, where explicate the websites that contain pdf, if the reader had problems viewing on your phone (or tablet) produced by file sizes (number of megs) other html files are online so we should have no problem to read its contents.
Cronista is the writer who collects and writes historical or current facts, which are called chronic.
Before the emergence of modern journalism and systematization of the chronicle as a journalistic genre, writer he was the writer who chronicled the events deemed worthy of remembrance (of "make history") recorded systematically over time (eg, year to year); the term was almost equivalent to historian. Unlike anonymous or known writers of epics, historians and chroniclers were distinguished by their will to truth in their stories; which often they dated back from antiquity to contemporary events, more or less plausible ways.
Although commonly referred to as "chroniclers" to all who wrote about the territories of the Spanish Empire overseas, only part of them had the official appointment of greatest chronicler of the Indies, granted by the king of Spain.
The charge was instituted in 1571 by Philip II, had for life, residing in court, and depended on the Council of the Indies until 1744, when Felipe V ordered his transfer to Real Academia de la Historia, created 6 years ago. Notwithstanding this provision, yet Fernando VI and Carlos III appointed to fill this job to one candidate.
After arrival in America by Europeans, their stories reporting on geography and way of life of Latin American indigenous his son Hernando, the famous letter of Américo Vespucio and met, from the relations of Christopher Columbus himself, many other discoverers and conquistadors like Hernan Cortes.
Many chroniclers focused on specific geographical areas, making regional chronicles some of the viceroys of America.
In the app relate the "Chroniclers of the Indies" which detailed information not only with the time of conquest but also the decades of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. We also try to give the vision of the conquered, not only of the conquistadors, with the biography of the author and highlighting its most representative versions with links to "free" (18 books) for easy reading work.
We incorporate also a last page called links PDF, where explicate the websites that contain pdf, if the reader had problems viewing on your phone (or tablet) produced by file sizes (number of megs) other html files are online so we should have no problem to read its contents.
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