History professor publishes chronicle of Aztec Mexico with acclaimed Mexican press

Bradley Benton, NDSU associate professor of history, has co-published an edition of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's “Historia de la nación chichimeca,” (ca. 1605) with acclaimed Mexican press Fondo de Cultura Económica

This work is one of the most important and influential chronicles of the rise and fall of Aztec Mexico. The original manuscript of the Historia was lost in the 1820s and rediscovered in the 1980s. Benton's edition is the first published Spanish edition based on the original manuscript. An English-language version of this text was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2019.