Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Notes from Underground on Cultural Transmission -- I. Invention of Traditions and Traditions of Invention in Renaissance Europe: The Strange Case of Annius of Viterbo -- 2. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Cultural Transmission, Renaissance Dialectic, and the Emerging Humanities -- 3. Cortés, Signs, and the Conquest of Mexico -- 4. "Second Nature": The Idea of Custom in European Law, Society, and Culture -- 5. The Making of a Political Paradigm: The Ottoman State and Oriental Despotism -- 6. Civic Chivalry and the English Civil War -- 7. Theology and Atheism in Early Modern France -- 8. Honor, Morals, Religion, and the Law: The Action for Criminal Conversation in England, 1670-1857 -- Contributor -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.