Contents

List of Abbreviations

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