Noble Nahuas, faith, and death : how the Indigenous elite of the colonial Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley prepared to perish / Erika Hosselkus -- Reading the (dead) body : histories of suicide in New Spain / Zeb Tortorici -- The autopsy of Fray García Guerra : corporal meanings in seventeenth-century Mexico / Miruna Achim -- The death of the monarch as colonial sacrament / James Flaks -- Exemplary punishment in colonial Lima : the 1639 Auto de Fe / Ana Schaposchnik -- Angelic death and sacrifice in early modern Hispanic America / Andrew Redden -- Medicine and the dead : conflicts over burial reform and piety in Lima, 1808-1850 / Adam Warren