The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico: An Essay on the Apostolate and the Evangelizing Methods of the Mendicant Orders in New Spain, 1523-1572

Translator\'s Preface
Contents
	Chronology
	Introduction
Part I. The Founding of the Church
	1 First Contacts between Paganism and Christianity
	2 Ethnographic and Linguistic Training of the Missionaries
	3 Geographic Distribution of Missions and Monasteries
	4 Prebaptismal Instruction and the Administration of Baptism
	5 The Catechism
	6 The Administration of the Sacraments
	7	Virtues of the Founders
Part II. The Stabilization of the Church
	8 Social Organisation and Public Works
	9 The Hospitals
	10 Missionary Conditions and Church Architecture
	11 Pomp and Magnificence
	12 The Edifying Play
	13 Primary and Technical Schools
	14 Training an Elite: the Problem of a Native Clergy
Part III. Conclusions
	15 Internal Dissensions
	16 Native Resistance
	17 The Early Evangelisation and the Religious Evolution of Niexico
Appendix I. Preface to the Spanish Edition of 1947
Appendix II. Essay on Sources
	Abbreviations Used In Notes
	NOTES TO INTRODUCTION (Pages 1-11)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
	(Pages 15-38)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 2
	(Pages 39-60)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 3 (Pages 61-80)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 5 (Pages 96-108)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 7 (Pages 128-131)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 8 (Pages 135-153)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 9 (Pages 155-161)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 10 (Pages 162-175)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 12 (Pages 194-206)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 13
	(Pages 207-216)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 14
	(Pages 217-235)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 15 (Pages 239-263)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 16 (Pages 264-282)
	NOTES TO CHAPTER 17
	(Pages 283-295)
	NOTES TO APPENDIX I
	(Pages 296-309)
	NOTES TO APPENDIX II
	(Pages 310-322)
Bibliography
	Index of Proper and Place Names