APRIL 30:  CHRISTIANITY IN THE NEW WORLD

Medieval worldviews....

...shattered by the discovery of the New World

European views of the natives:  "innocents" in Paradise, but also bloodthirsty savages:

Aztecs:

Fulfilling every Christian stereotype about nasty pagan idolaters:

...which, according to Europeans, justifies this:

and this:

Old patterns of piety in a new world:  Catholicism in Peru

Old fears in a new world:  the witch-craze crosses the Atlantic