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THE FUTURE OF AZTEC LAW
2017,2019
Overview
THE YEAR 2019 will mark half a millennium from the Spanish intrusion into central Mexico. Throughout this region and beyond, the Spaniards encountered a great world civilization, enormously complex and ancient, some small portions of which a few members of their society managed to record, motivated by conventional religious, economic, political, and legal concerns, although often as well by fascination with what they encountered.¹ As the postcontact society and economy changed, more rapidly in some areas than others, asserting and ascertaining the content of precontact Aztec law became a vital concern of Spanish missionaries,² colonists, colonial administrators, surviving indigenous elites,
