{"id":87,"date":"2005-03-27T02:21:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T06:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/03\/27\/nahuatl-as-written-makes-my-week\/"},"modified":"2005-03-27T02:21:01","modified_gmt":"2005-03-27T06:21:01","slug":"nahuatl-as-written-makes-my-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/03\/27\/nahuatl-as-written-makes-my-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Nahuatl as Written makes my week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a842'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;<i>iuhqui ce loca omocuep cenca quitepexihuia<\/i>&#8221; : like a crazy woman, throwing her soul over a cliff, into the abyss\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an excerpt from a petition submitted by <b>Leonor Magdalena<\/b> to the governor of <b>Coyoacan<\/b> in 1613, in which he discusses the insanity of his widowed daughter-in-law.  Provided in Nahuatl with English gloss by James Lockhart, Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA, in his lovely work &#8220;<i>Nahuatl as Written<\/i>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>What would make my month, would be getting access to a digital copy of the entire encyclopedia of Aztec society that one of the friars made while there was still a large body of living elders who had lived much of their lives under the Aztec empire &#8212; Fray Sahagun&#8217;s 12-volume <i><b>Florentine Codex<\/b><\/i>.  <\/p>\n<p><big>Codex Florentine<\/big> will be a juggernaut next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;iuhqui ce loca omocuep cenca quitepexihuia&#8221; : like a crazy woman, throwing her soul over a cliff, into the abyss This is an excerpt from a petition submitted by Leonor Magdalena to the governor of Coyoacan in 1613, in which he discusses the insanity of his widowed daughter-in-law. Provided in Nahuatl with English gloss by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-by-wire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-1p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}