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Jerome A. Offner is Associate Curator of Northern Mesoamerica at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and an expert on the Aztecs, their history, culture, law, and politics. His groundbreaking study, Law and Politics in Aztec Texcoco (1983) was the winner of the 1985 Howard F. Cline Prize in Latin American history. More recently, he has turned his attention to the Aztecs’ graphic communication system and the study of native pictorial documents from before and after the conquest of 1519 CE. Along with a team of scholars from five European countries and Mexico, he is currently investigating the greatest of the Aztec pictorial histories, the Codex Xolotl, which reports on the remarkable life of the most famous Aztec jurist, Nezahualcoyotl (r. 1431–72 CE). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Max Harris is the author of five previous books, including Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools (2011) which won the Otto Grundler prize. He has served as Executive Director of the Wisconsin Humanities Council and has taught at Yale University and the University of Virginia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Fabio Parasecoli