SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Historiography: Bernal Díaz del Castillo

-- »Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 - 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador, who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events. As an experienced soldier of fortune, he had already participated in expeditions to Tierra Firme, Cuba, and to Yucatán before joining Cortés. In his later years he was an encomendero and governor in Guatemala where he wrote his memoirs called The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. He began his account of the conquest almost thirty years after the events and later revised and expanded it in response to the biography published by Cortés's chaplain Francisco López de Gémara, which he considered to be largely inaccurate in that it did not give due recognition to the efforts and sacrifices of others in the Spanish expedition.« -- More information: Wikipedia

-- »Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 by military adventurer, , and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions; those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of Juan de Grijalva (1518), and the expedition of Hernán Cortés (1519) in the Valley of Mexico; the history relates his participation in the fall of Emperor Moctezuma II, and the subsequent defeat of the Aztec Empire.« -- More information: Wikipedia

B i b l i o g r a p h y

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España

Types: General: Rape

I. Author Index

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Ramos González, Rosario. »Eve, Eye, Evening: Questions of Rape and Corpses in Bernal Díaz del Castillo's "The Conquest of New Spain".« 34^th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1999.