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Chapter 1 deals with what Restall calls "the Myth of exceptional men" — the idea that the Spanish Conquest was enabled by certain outstanding individuals such as Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro and their personal courage and innovative strategies. The myth of Columbus developed in North America in the 1800s, when historians generated interest ...
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However, a majority of Mesoamericanist scholars, such as Matthew Restall (2003, 2018 [37]), James Lockhart (1994), Susan D. Gillespie (1989), Camilla Townsend (2003a, 2003b), Louise Burkhart, Michel Graulich and Michael E. Smith (2003), among others, consider the "Quetzalcoatl/Cortés myth" as one of many myths about the Spanish conquest which ...
The Historical Atlas of World Mythology is a multi-volume series of books by Joseph Campbell that traces developments in humankind's mythological symbols and stories from pre-history forward. Campbell is perhaps best known as a comparativist who focused on universal themes and motifs in human culture.
Pages in category "Spanish mythology" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... This page was last edited on 1 September 2024, ...
Mythologies was first published in English in 1972, translated by Annette Lavers and issued by Jonathan Cape in England and by Hill & Wang in the United States. This abridged English language edition included the book’s explanatory analysis, “Myth Today,” in full, but excluded twenty-five of the book’s original fifty-three essays.
Spanish mythology refers to the sacred myths of the cultures of Spain. They include Galician mythology, Asturian mythology , Cantabrian mythology, Catalan ...
[1] [2] By 1987, there were more than 100 editions of Bulfinch's Mythology in the National Union Catalog, [3] and in a survey of amazon.com in November 2014 there were 229 print editions and 19 e‑books. [4] Talbot opined that, of the many available, Richard P. Martin's 1991 edition is "by far the most useful and extensive critical treatment". [5]