A New Millenarian: Georges Baudot

E-ISSN： 1533-6247|36|4|515-526

ISSN： 0003-1615

Source： The Americas, Vol.36, Iss.4, 1980-04, pp. : 515-526

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Abstract

Georges Baudot has written a lengthy book (554 pages) which bears a beautiful and suggestive title: Utopia and History in Mexico. In publishing this work, he seems to have had two very clear purposes in mind. The first is to fill an enormous gap since “strange as it may seem, the authentic sources for most of our knowledge about pre-Columbian civilization in central Mexico have never been studied.” (p. ix) The second, is to demonstrate the grandeur of the Franciscan work in the sixteenth century, impelled by millenarian fervor.