The Boxer Codex: An Illustrated Manuscript from Late Sixteenth Century Iberian Asia

A Special Session with Jorge Flores

Wednesday of Week 5 (25 May), 4:30-6 pm
Maddicott Room, Cohen Quad, Exeter College (Walton Street)
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This special session of the reading group will be led by Jorge Flores (University of Lisbon), in the context of the programme of activities associated with his TORCH International Fellowship. The meeting will be devoted to the Boxer Codex, a source produced in Manila towards the end of the sixteenth century and kept today at the Lilly Library, in Bloomington, Indiana, whose digital copy will be projected on a screen. Participants are also invited to consult the English translation recently edited by George Bryan Souza.

The discussion will be based on the following reading: 

J.N. Crossley, ‘The early history of the Boxer Codex’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3rd s., 24, 1 (2014): 115-124

E. Hsieh, ‘The power of images in the Boxer Codex and cultural convergence in early Spanish Manila’, in Historical archaeology of early modern colonialism in Asia-Pacific region, ed. M. Cruz Berrocal and C.-H. Tsang (2017), 118-145

D. Bleichmar, ‘Painting the Aztec past in early colonial Mexico: Translation and knowledge production in the Codex Mendoza’, Renaissance Quarterly 72, 4 (2019): 1362-1415.