Historias de la conquista del Mayab, 1511-1697

"Welcome first publication of a little-known account completed in 1725 by this member of the Franciscan order. Includes Fray Joseph's version of a chronicle purportedly written by the famous shipwrecked Spaniard-turned Maya war leader, Gonzalo Guerrero, as well as accounts of the first waves of the conquest of the Yucatán, the conversion of the Chontales, and the conquest of the Itza by 1697. Editors' valuable introduction discusses the veracity of the claims made about Guerrero's account, the ethnohistorical significance of the entire work, its historical context, and the identity of its author"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.