Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada
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Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada (English: Summary of the conquest of the New Kingdom of Granada) is a document of uncertain authorship, possibly (partly) written by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada between 1548 and 1559. The book was not published until 1889 by anthropologist Marcos Jiménez de la Espada in his work Juan de Castellanos y su Historia del Nuevo Reino de Granada.
Author | disputed possibly (partly) Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada |
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Country | Colombia |
Language | Spanish |
Subjects | Conquest of the Muisca Descriptions of the Panche Muisca society The role of salt mining History of Colombia |
Set in | New Kingdom of Granada |
Published | 1889 |
Publisher | Marcos Jiménez de la Espada |
Publication date | 1548-1559 (estimated) |
Pages | 17 |
Website | Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1979 edition) |
Epítome narrates about the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, from the start from Santa Marta in April 1536 to the leave of main conquistador Jiménez de Quesada in April 1539 from Bogotá, arriving to Spain, about "The Salt People" (Muisca) encountered in the conquest expedition in the heart of the Colombian Andes, their society, rules, religion, handling of the dead, warfare and neighbouring "cannibalistic" Panche.
The text has been studied by various authors over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly by Juan Friede and modern scholars and various theories about authorship and temporal setting have been proposed. The document is held by the National Historical Archive in Madrid, Spain.