Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sahagún's education and Franciscan training in Spain -- Sahagún's intellectual origins : from early education to the university of Salamanca -- Sahagún's religious education : the Friary of San Francisco -- Sahagún and the spiritual conquest of New Spain -- The Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Santiago de Tlatelolco -- Sahagún's composition of linguistic and doctrinal works in Nahuatl -- Books on antiquities and geographical accounts -- Sahagún's intellectual models for the composition of Historia universal -- Sahagún and the encyclopaedic tradition -- The influence of Christian works on Historia universal -- Inquisitorial techniques as Sahagún's method of data collection -- The Inquisition in Spain and New Spain during the first half of the sixteenth-century -- Olmos and Sahagún's application of the inquisitorial techniques to the collection of indigenous data -- The origin of Sahagún's questions -- The composition of Historia universal : Sahagún, the respondents, and the assistants -- The Nahua respondents' role -- The Nahua assistants' role -- Sahagún's role.

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