First images of America: the impact of the New World on the Old

v. 1. I. Renaissance and discovery – Renaissance and discovery / Charles Trinkaus – Renaissance Europe and America: a blunted impact? / John H. Elliott – II. Angles of perception : myth and literature – Impulses of Italian Renaissance culture behind the age of discoveries / Thomas Goldstein – The earliest accounts on the New World / Antonello Gerbi – The effect of discovery on ethnological and folklore studies in Europe / Wayland D. Hand – The New World from within: the Inca Garcilaso / Juan Marichal – A note on Montaigne’s Des Cannibales and the Humanist tradition / Aldo Scaglione – Primitivism ad the process of civility in Spenser’s Faerie Queene / A. Bartlett Giamatti – Shakespeare’s brave new world / Paul A. Jorgensen – Images of America in the German Renaissance / Harold Jantz – The vision of America in the writings of Urbain Chauveton / Benjamin Keen – The noble savage theme as fetish / Hayden White – III. The politics of conflict – The American principle from More to Locke / Arthur J. Slavin – Jesuit sources and the Italian political utopia in the second half of the sixteenth century / Rosario Romeo – The discovery of America and reform thought at the papal court in the early fifteenth century / John W. O’Malley – The Alexandrine Bulls of 1493: pseudo-Asiatic documents / Luis Weckmann-Munoz – The papal division of the world and its consequences / Miguel Batllori – Old World origins of the Spanish-American viceregal system / Charles E. Norwell – The New World as a factor in international relations, 1492-1739 / Charles H. Carter – The battle of the Atlantic, 1500-1700 / Geoffrey W. Simcox – Echoes of the New World in the international rivalries of East Central Europe / Paul W. Knoll

IV. Governing the New World : moral, legal and theological aspects – A secular sense of responsibility / John H. Parry – The beginnings of international law and general public law doctrine: Francisco de Vitoria’s De Indiis prior / Etienne Grisel – Medieval canonistic origins of the dabte on the lawfulness of the Spanish Conquest / Robert L. Benson – The clash of morality in the American forest / Wilcomb E. Washburn – Marriage in Michoacan / John T. Nooan, Jr. – The theological significance of the discovery of America / Lewis Hanke – The Philippines: reluctant beneficiary of the missionary impulse in Europe / Gerald H. Anderson – Right to counsel: the message from America / David Mellinkoff – V. Images in the arts – First visual images of Native America / William C. Sturtevant – American objects in Italian collections of the Renaissance and Baroque: a survey / Detlef Heikamp – Mexican Indian art and the Atlantic filter: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Donald Robertson – Jan Mostaert’s West Indies landscapes / James Snyder – America in festival presentations / Suzanne Boorsch – v. 2. VI. Books – The New World in French and English historians of the sixteenth century / Myron P. Gilmore – Some bibliographical observations on and questions about the relationship between the discovery of America and the invention of printing / Thomas R. Adams – Printed reports on the early discoveries and their reception / Rudolph Hirsch – VII. Language – Learning to curse: aspects of linguistic colonialism in the sixteenth century / Stephen J. Greenblatt – Changes in European languages under a new set of sociolinguistic circumstances / Yakov Malkiel – Borrowing versus semantic shift: New World nomenclature in Europe / Edward F. Tuttle

VII. The new geography – New geographical horizons: concepts / Hildegard Binder Johnson – New geographical horizons: literature / David B. Quinn – New geographical horizons: maps / Norman J. W. Thrower – Cosmographers of Seville: nautical science and social experience / Ursula Lamb – Celestial navigation: from local systems to a global conception / Francis M. Rogers – IX. The movement of people – The mixing of populations / Woodrow Borah – Spanish emigrants to the Indies, 1595-98: a profile / Peter Boyd-Bowman – Spanish migration to the New World prior to 1800: a report on the state of research / Magnus Morner – Letters and people to Spain / James Lockhart

X. Science and trade – The Columbian discoveries and the growth of botanical ideas with special reference to the sixteenth century / Joseph Ewan – Changing perception and exploitation of New World plants in Europe, 1492-1800 / Jonathan D. Sauer – America and the European drug trade / Charles H. Talbot – The problem of syphilis / Francisco Guerra – What the New World gave the economy of the Old / Earl J. Hamilton – XI. Epilogue.