Table of Contents

Contents Preface: Encountering the Sources

• Part I: Medieval Foundations
• Origin and Development of Archival Record-Keeping in the Crown of Castile-León
• A Medieval “Information Age”: Documentation and Archives in the Crown of Aragon
• Medieval Catalonian Wills: Family Charter Evidence in the Archives
• Part II: The Quincentenary Focus: Columbus Studies
• Back to the Sources for Christopher Columbus: Two Personal Memoirs
• Documentary Published Sources for the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
• Columbus Bibliographies: Past, Present, Future
• Editing Columbian Writings
• Religious Motives for Columbus's First Voyage: Evidence From the Explorer's Writings, ca. 1481-1502
• Columbus in Myth and History
• Part III: Access and Research in Iberian Archives: Portugal and Its Seaborne Empire
• Sources in Portuguese and Goan (India) Archives and Libraries (1500-1755): A Guide and Commentary
• Archival Evidence of the Portuguese Expansion in Africa, 1440-1521
• Sources for Portuguese West African History in the Vatican and Related Collections
• Portuguese Archival Documentation of Europe's First Colony in the Tropics: The Cape Verde Islands, 1460-1530
• Spain During European Expansion
• Iberian Sources for the History of Trade With North Africa and the Levant, ca. 1350-1510
• The Pícaro(ital) in Fact and Fiction: The Inquisition and Lazarillo de Tormes(ital)
• Sources for a New Social-Political History of Early Modern Local Administration
• Part V: Exploring Archives and Discovering Sources
• Pioneers of Discovery History in the Spanish Archives: Alice Gould and Irene Wright: A Memoir
• Hunting for Hispanic-American Manuscripts in Spain: Part 1: The Explorations of Charles Upson Clark Revisited
• Hunting for Hispanic-American Manuscripts in Spain: Part 2: America Documented in Spanish Provincial Archives: A Manuscript Sample for Central America
• Viewing the Cultural Treasures of Spain: A Review Essay
• Reference Notes Included
• Index