Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Sahagún's Education and Franciscan Training in Spain -- CHAPTER 2: Sahagún and the Spiritual Conquest of New Spain -- CHAPTER 3: Sahagún's Intellectual Models for the Composition of Historia universal -- CHAPTER 4: Inquisitorial Techniques as Sahagún's Method of Data Collection -- CHAPTER 5: The Composition of Historia universal: Sahagún, the Respondents, and the Assistants -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I: Contents of Historia universal -- APPENDIX II Comparison of Contents -- APPENDIX III Sahagún's Rearrangement of Contents -- Bibliography -- Index