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Matthew Restall

JUST PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

The Friar & The Maya:

Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan

The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original manuscript held by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid. This critical and careful reading of the Account is long overdue in Maya studies and will forever change how this seminal text is understood and used.

About Matthew Restall

Matthew Restall is an historian of the Maya, of early Latin America, and of popular music. He is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at Penn State University. Download Matthew Restall’s complete CV here.

“Restall has a well-earned reputation as a myth-buster in the history of the New World … [When Montezuma Met Cortés is] a lively, original, and readable book aimed at a wider audience”

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