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262 BENEDICT VADAKKEKARA Library in Chicago in connection with the fifth centennial of the birth of the Franciscan Observant friar, scholar and teacher Bernardino de Sahagun (t 1590). The symposium was organised by the University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies and was jointly sponsored by several academic centres including the Academy of American Franciscan History, the Center for Renais– sance Studies of the Newberry Library, Loyola University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. It was no coincidence that the Newberry Library was cho– sen to be the venue of the symposium. As a matter of fact this library holds more original manuscripts of Fr Sahagun than an other repository in the US and those documents were on display during the first day of the meeting. A pe– rusal of the volume shows that the symposium was a homage paid to the genius of Fr Bernardino de Sahagun on the part of specialists in the fields of history, art, theology and anthropology, and that "this collection of essays marks an im– portant milestone in the study of the life and works of Fr. Bernardino de Sa– hagun" (XIII). The papers bring into bold relief the richly variegated figure and heritage of Bernardino of Sahagun: Miguel Leon-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagun: Pioneer of Anthropology (1-9); Thomas S. Bremer, Sahagun and the imagination of inter-religious dialogues (11-29); Francisco Morales, Theologicalframework of the doctrinal contents of Sahagun's Coloquios (31-58); David A. Boruchoff, Sahagun and the theology of mis– sionary life (59-102); Louise M. Burkhart, On the margins of legitimary: Sahagun's Psalmodia and the Latin liturgy (103-116); Ellen T. Baird, Sahagun and the representa– tion of history (117-136); Elizabeth Hill Boone, The multilingua/4 bi-visual world of Sa– hagun 's Mexico (137-166); Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, The painters of Sahagun's manuscripts: Mediators between two worlds (167-191); Diana Magaloni-Kerpel, Visual– izing the Nahua/ Christian dialogue: Images of the Conquest in Sahagun's Florentine Codex and their sources (193-221); Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Crafting the se!f: Identity and the mimetic tradition in the Florentine Codex (223-253); H.B. Nicholson, Sahagun's itemi– zation of the structure of the Templo Mqyor Precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan: "Legend" of a lost dream? (255-263); J.F. Schwaller, Tracking the Sahagun legary: Manuscripts and their travels (265-273). That Bernardino de Sahagun and his confreres belonged to a faction of the Minorite Order "that wished to pursue what they perceived as a lifestyle more in keeping with the original vision of their founder, St. Francis" is basic to the understanding of the missionary spirit and enthusiasm of the Franciscan evan- Street], Academy of American Franciscan History, 2003. 26 cm., XIII+301 p., ill. ISBN 0- 88382-304-7.