Contents
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Introduction | Francisco Marco Simón and David Charles Wright-Carr
1. Ritual Mediation on the Middle Ground: Rome and New Spain Compared | Greg Woolf
2. A Long Way to Become Christian: Romans, Hungarians, and the Nahua | György Németh
3. Human Sacrifice and the Religion of the Other: Barbarians, Pagans, and Aztecs | Francisco Marco Simón
4. The Aztec Sun and Its Mesoamerican Milieu from a Classical Mediterranean Perspective | Lorenzo Pérez Yarza
5. Donkeys and Hares: The Enemy Warrior in the Early European Chronicles of the Conquest | Paolo Taviani
6. Cultural Persistence and Appropriation in the Huamantla Map | David Charles Wright-Carr
7. Comparison and the Franciscan Construction of Mesoamerican Polytheism through Augustine of Hippo’s De Civitate Dei | Sergio Botta
8. Bernardino de Sahagún on Nahua Astrology and Divination: Greco-Roman Traditions, Christian Disapproval and Ambiguity, and Mesoamerican Practices | Guilhem Olivier
9. A Version of the Millennial Kingdom in the Portería of the Franciscan Convent in Cholula, Mexico | María Celia Fontana Calvo
10. Smoking Stones and Smoking Mirrors: The Limits of Antiquarianism in New Spain | Martin Devecka
Index
Contributors