The Codex Mexicanus Genealogy: Binding the Mexica Past and the Colonial Present

Created in late sixteenth-century Mexico City, the Codex Mexicanus is an extensive bound book of miscellaneous contents, including a rare pictorial genealogy of the Tenochca dynastic lineage that traces the family line from its ancient origins to its colonial descendants. The Codex Mexicanus, as a whole, represents an attempt by its patrons and contributors to reconcile the Mexica past and the Christian present, and the inclusion of a genealogy in the larger book suggests that the Mexica royal house was believed to play an important role in this process. By providing a reading of the genealogy and comparing it with others, both native and European, I show that it presents a unique view of the Tenochca royal house that emphasizes its integrity and antiquity and in so doing effectively excludes outsiders who, at the time the codex was being created, were increasingly making claims on Mexica privileges without the proper family connections.     

The man behind the syndrome: Sigvald Refsum

The authors attempt to solve the enigma about the possible aphasia of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus (1391–1425) in the 3-year period between his first and his second and fatal stroke. The texts of historians and chroniclers reveal that Manuel remained semi-paralyzed at bed and his motor disability alienated him from the state affairs and condemned him to isolation from all embassies and contact with others, except his family. Only the funeral oration of the Bishop Bessarion raises the suspicion of a speechless emperor. All testimonies referring to this infirmity are examined.     

Recovering Lives from behind the Gloss of Ideology: Recent Histories of Elite and Middle‐Class Women in England and America

Books reviewed in this article: Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women's Lives in GeorgianEngland Jill Liddington, Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone (eds), A Shared Experience: Men, Women and the History of Gender John Tosh, A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle‐Class Homein Victorian England     

世界旅游新发展和旅游基本法建设

本文对制订旅游基本法所处的世界旅游发展新形势重新作了概括,进而阐述了世界各国制订旅游基本法的主要情况,同时重点阐述了世界各国旅游基本法的主要内容。文章对旅游基本法和其它旅游法规的关系也作了论述。     

幕后人生亦如戏 泉州、晋江、漳州木偶剧团传承故事

<正>挑灯夜战为汇演对于泉州、晋汀和漳州木偶剧团的第一印象,记者都是从观看三个剧团紧张的汇演节目排练产生的。剧场中锣鼓声一齐奏响,三米高台上的十来个演员排成一列,俯身操纵着各自的提线木偶,自如地在高台上逆时针走动。在他们身下灯光照亮的舞台上.小木偶们从两侧幕布后鱼贯而出,手舞足蹈。台上正在排练的是重新编排的传统剧目《卢俊义》,泉州市木偶剧团打算以此剧目参加马上来临的福建省文艺汇演。在同一时间,晋江市掌中木偶艺术保护传承中心和漳州市木偶剧团也在排练着各自的剧目,晋江已经排练完毕,开始练最后的谢幕,而漳州则在最后打磨一些技术和音乐细节。