Drs. Berenice Alcántara and Mario A. Sánchez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Several libraries around the world preserve manuscripts containing sermons written in the Nahuatl language during the 16th century. These sermons contain valuable information about the evolution of the Nahuatl language in its contact with Spanish and about the evangelization process that the Nahua societies of central Mexico went through in that century. In our talk, we will explore the characteristics of these manuscripts, the difficulties involved in their study, as well as the work of cataloging, translating, and editing them that we have undertaken in the "Sermones en Mexicano" project at UNAM (Mexico).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Department of Religious Studies, and UNAM Chicago.