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Catholicism in New Spain
Christian concepts in Nahuatl
Christian evangelization in Mexico
Christianization of the Nahua
Colegio de Santa Cruz Tlatelolco
colonial Latin American studies
colonial manuscript studies
colonial religious texts
critical edition of colonial texts
cultural exchange in the Americas
doctrinal writings of Sahagun
early colonial ethnography
early colonial Mexico
early Mexican book history
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European-Indigenous collaboration
evangelization of the Americas
Franciscan missionaries
Franciscan textual traditions
friars in New Spain
history of Mexican Christianity
history of religious conversion
Indigenous agency in evangelization
Indigenous Christianity
Indigenous intellectual history
Indigenous perspectives on evangelization
Indigenous responses to Christianity
intercultural religious exchange
maguey paper manuscripts
manuscript analysis of Sahagun
Mesoamerican colonial literature
Mesoamerican history
Mexican colonial religious history
missionary education in Mexico
missionary linguistics
Nahua contributions to scholarship
Nahua scholars
Nahuatl religious texts
Nahuatl sermons
New Spain's intellectual history
pre-Hispanic traditions in sermons
rare manuscripts of New Spain
religious negotiations in New Spain
religious rhetoric in Nahuatl
Sahagun's ethnographic methods
sixteenth-century sermons
Spanish-Nahua translation
theology in colonial Latin America
translation of Christian doctrine
translation studies in colonial Mexico
Product details
- ISBN 9781647692551
- Weight: 1533g
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2026
- Publisher: University of Utah Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first English publication of the earliest surviving Christian sermons from the Americas
The Americas’ First Sermons presents the first English translation and critical study of the complete set of sermons composed by Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagÚn and his Nahua students at the Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, Mexico in 1540. The volume represents a crucial moment in the cultural exchange between European and Indigenous civilizations in sixteenth-century colonial Mexico.
With the collaboration of Mario Alberto SÁnchez Aguilera, this edition offers unprecedented access to the collaboration between European friars and Nahua scholars in translating Christian concepts into Native languages. It captures SahagÚn’s evolving methods across three phases (1530s–1560s) through his extensive annotations, bridging the divide between his ethnographic and doctrinal works. Unique in its analysis of both text and manuscript features—such as rare maguey paper—it highlights Indigenous intellectual contributions at the Colegio de Santa Cruz. This translation provides essential insights into early colonial religious negotiations and makes previously inaccessible material available to scholars across multiple disciplines.
The Americas’ First Sermons presents the first English translation and critical study of the complete set of sermons composed by Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagÚn and his Nahua students at the Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, Mexico in 1540. The volume represents a crucial moment in the cultural exchange between European and Indigenous civilizations in sixteenth-century colonial Mexico.
With the collaboration of Mario Alberto SÁnchez Aguilera, this edition offers unprecedented access to the collaboration between European friars and Nahua scholars in translating Christian concepts into Native languages. It captures SahagÚn’s evolving methods across three phases (1530s–1560s) through his extensive annotations, bridging the divide between his ethnographic and doctrinal works. Unique in its analysis of both text and manuscript features—such as rare maguey paper—it highlights Indigenous intellectual contributions at the Colegio de Santa Cruz. This translation provides essential insights into early colonial religious negotiations and makes previously inaccessible material available to scholars across multiple disciplines.
Ben Leeming is author of Aztec Antichrist: Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico. He is the John B. Jarzavek Teaching Chair and chair of history at The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts.
