Abstract

PASTOR, Marialba. Censorship and Self-censorship in the Early Chronicles of the Conquest and Evangelization of Mexico. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2020, vol.41, n.164, pp.25-44.  Epub Oct 11, 2021. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v41i164.721.

This text offers a broad review of the censorship and self-censorship imposed and induced by the Royal Council of Castile and the observant and reformed Spanish clergy in the first decades of the 16th century. It thus identifies the omissions, arrangements, and adaptations to which accounts of the conquest and evangelization of Mexico were subject, especially in relation to indigenous religiosity. The objective is to document these omissions, arrangements, and adaptations so as to ensure that scholars keep them in mind when studying those accounts and, above all, when using them as first-hand sources.

Keywords : Spanish censorship; chronicles of Indian America; conquest; evangelization; stereotype of the American Indian.

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