The Aztec (Mexica) city of Tenochtitlan was transformed after the Spanish invasion of 1519–21 into a staging ground for Habsburg colonial experiments. Indigenous response is glimpsed in this essay through the lens of annals, written in Nahuatl, that document urban festivals celebrating Spanish Habsburg monarchs. I argue that the redeployment of particular spaces—long charged with meaning by Indigenous residents—was crucial to the public legitimacy of the Habsburg festival. These festivals promoted new means of temporal orientation, thus disrupting Indigenous orientations in time, at the same moment that Indigenous calendars were coming under scrutiny for their heretical potentials.

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2022 年约瑟芬·沃特斯·贝内特讲座：墨西加空间和哈布斯堡时间

1519-21 年西班牙入侵后，阿兹特克（墨西哥）城市特诺奇蒂特兰变成了哈布斯堡王朝殖民实验的集结地。这篇文章通过用纳瓦特尔语写成的编年史的镜头瞥见了土著人的反应，这些编年史记录了庆祝西班牙哈布斯堡君主的城市节日。我认为，特定空间的重新部署——长期以来被原住民居民赋予意义——对于哈布斯堡节日的公众合法性至关重要。这些节日推广了新的时间定位方式，从而扰乱了原住民的时间定位，与此同时，原住民日历因其异端潜力而受到审查。