Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents 9
3. Acknowledgements 11
4. Introduction 13
5. CHAPTER 1. Sahagún’s Education and Franciscan Training in Spain 37
6. CHAPTER 2: Sahagún and the Spiritual Conquest of New Spain 63
7. CHAPTER 3: Sahagún’s Intellectual Models for the Composition of Historia universal 111
8. CHAPTER 4: Inquisitorial Techniques as Sahagún’s Method of Data Collection 151
9. CHAPTER 5: The Composition of Historia universal: Sahagún, the Respondents, and the Assistants 199
10. Conclusion 241
11. APPENDIX I: Contents of Historia universal 251
12. APPENDIX II Comparison of Contents 259
13. APPENDIX III Sahagún’s Rearrangement of Contents 275
14. Bibliography 281
15. Index 313