Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgment vii
4. Introduction: Notes from Underground on Cultural Transmission 1
5. 1. Invention of Traditions and Traditions of Invention in Renaissance Europe: The Strange Case of Annius of Viterbo 8
6. 2. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Cultural Transmission, Renaissance Dialectic, .and the Emerging Humanities 39
7. 3. Cortés, Signs, and the Conquest of Mexico 87
8. 4. “Second Nature”: The Idea of Custom in European Law, Society, and Culture 131
9. 5. The Making of a Political Paradigm: The Ottoman State and Oriental Despotism 173
10. 6. Civic Chivalry and the English Civil War 204
11. 7. Theology and Atheism in Early Modern France 238
12. 8. Honor, Morals, Religion, and the Law: The Action for Criminal Conversation in England, 1670-1857 276
13. Contributors 317
14. Index 319