Review article
The travel book oj the Spanish conquista, the English espionage and their relationship to political animism
Ivan Pederin
Abstract
This article is a review and analysis of the travel book which emerged out of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Cortes is ranged in modern historiography as a robber owing to Voltaire. This analysis, which included also the report of English espionage reveals him as a gifted politician, administrator, soldier of venure and also as a missionary because he discussed questions of faith with the Emperor Moctezuma. Theology was however for him a political factum. This analysis reveals also that he was hailed b.y most of the conquered Indian tribes straitjacketed under the merciless rules of immolation of humans and their willingly converted to Christian religion.
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51396
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Publication date:
21.12.1998.
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