دانلود کتاب Ancient Kings of Peru. The Reliability of the Chronicle of Fernando de Montesinos; Correlating the Dynasty Lists with Current Prehistoric Periodization in the Andes

The aim of this study is to re-evaluate the value of Fernando de Montesinos'
chronicle as a source of historical information. The principal focus will be on
ethnic traditional element incorporated in Montesinos' account: the dynastic
traditions narrating events from the Pre-Incaic Andean past. This information is
reflected upon, evaluated, and correlated with the current archaeological and
other circumstantial evidence provided by modem research in the Andes.
Fernando de Montesinos was a Spanish cleric of the Baroque, who spent
fifteen years in the Viceroyalty of Peru, and wrote down native histories and
traditions. His chronicle, Ophir de Espana or Memorias Antiguasy Historiales
del Peru, differs profoundly from all the other primary sources of the Andean
native past. It provides an account of a long dynastic tradition predating the
Incas, a historical narrative which is not mentioned elsewhere in full form.' The
work contains other peculiarities too: 1) references to the writing skills of
ancient Peruvians, and 2) a hypothetical reconstruction of a supposed descent
of all Peruvian dynasties from Ophir (the great grandson of Noah) and the
Armenians. These deviations from the other Spanish Andean chronicles are the
principal reasons why Montesinos' work has generally been neglected by
scholarly circles since its first publication in 1840. The present study propose
to re-evaluate this document as a source, and to reconstruct the essence of what
appears to have been genuine Andean folklore behind Montesinos' elaborated
narrative.