The Broken Spears

The Broken Spears

Infobox Book
name = The Broken Spears
title_orig = Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista


image_caption = 2007 English edition
author = Miguel León-Portilla
country = Mexico
language = Spanish
subject = Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
publisher = UNAM
pub_date = 1959
english_pub_date = 1962

"The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico" (Spanish title: "Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista") is a book by Miguel León-Portilla, translating selections of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. It was first published in Spanish in 1959, and in English in 1962. The most recent English edition was published in 2007 (ISBN 978-0807055007).

The English-language title, "The Broken Spears", comes from a phrase in one version (BnF MS 22bis) of the Annals of Tlatelolco, "xaxama [n] toc omitl". According to James Lockhart, this is a mistranslation resulting from confusion between the Nahuatl words "mitl" "arrow", "dart" or "spear", and "omitl" "bone"; the correct translation is thus "broken bones". [cite book |author=Lockhart, James |year=2004 |origyear=1993 |title=We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico |location=Eugene, Oregon |publisher=Wipf and Stock |isbn=1-59244-681-7 |pages=p. 313]

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