Includes bibliographical references (P. 233-247) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Series Editors' Foreword ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction 3 -- Part I. The Critical, Symbolic, and Historical Construction -- of Fray Bernardino de Sahagin 15 -- Chapter 1. Sahagun's Entrances into History: An Episodic -- Examination of How Sahaguin Became an -- Object of Scholarly Desire 17 -- Chapter 2. Paternity Suits and Cases of Mistaken -- Identity: Current Interpretations of Sahaguin's -- Mind-Set and Symbolic Importance 53 -- Part z. Sahaguin and His Worlds Lox -- Chapter 3. When Worlds Collide: Crisis and Structure in -- Sahagun's Historia universal I03 -- Chapter 4. Problems of Mimesis and Exemplarity in -- Sahagun's Work 144 -- Chapter 5. Sahagun, the Devil, and the Disintegration of -- a Medieval Conceptualization of Knowledge 185 -- Notes 215 -- Bibliography 233 -- Index 249.