Yucatan Before and After the Conquest: The Maya by Diego de Landa, Diego de Landa
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest: The Maya

Diego de Landa, Diego de Landa

Yucatan Before and After the Conquest: The Maya

Diego de Landa, Diego de Landa

270 pages first pub 1566 (view editions)

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Among the many 'bad guys' in [history], the Friar Diego de Landa has to occupy a special circle in hell. In 1562, de Landa conducted an 'Auto de fe' in Mani where in addition to 5000 'idols,' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. This one act depriv...

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