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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1501–1600

The Sixteenth Century

2 works

1564

Nahuatl

Dialogues and Christian Doctrine

Coloquios y Doctrina Cristiana

Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua elders

A reconstruction of the 1524 debates between the first friars and Aztec priests, giving the Nahua side space to argue that their gods gave them life and food.

Franciscan · DialogueRead elsewhere

c. 1545–1579

Nahuatl

The General History of the Things of New Spain

Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España

Bernardino de Sahagún and his Nahua collaborators · c. 1499–1590

Twelve books on Nahua religion, government, medicine, trade, and natural history, compiled from interviews with elders and written in Nahuatl by native scribes.

Franciscan · EthnographyRead elsewhere