Pauline
Moffitt Watts is a member of the European History Faculty of Sarah Lawrence
College. She is the author and editor of books and articles in the areas
of Medieval and Renaissance religious and intellectual history, and in
cross-cultural contacts in sixteenth-century Mexico. She has received
fellowships from The American Academy in Rome, The Harvard University
Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, The John Carter
Brown Library, and The American Council of Learned Societies. Her publications
include Nicolaus Cusanus: A Fifteenth-Century Vision of Man, Leiden, 1982; "Prophecy and Discovery: On The Spiritual Origins of Christopher
Columbus's 'Enterprise of The Indies'", The American Historical Review,
1985, 75-102; The Game of Spheres, A Translation of Nicolaus Cusanus'
De ludo globi with introduction and notes. New York: Abaris Press, 1986;
"Hieroglyphs of Conversion: Alien Discourses in Diego Valades's Rhetorica
Christiana," Memoriae Domenicanae, n.s. 22, 1991, 405-33; "Talking
To Spiritual Others: Ramon Llull, Nicholas of Cusa, Diego Valadés"
in Nicholas of Cusa in Search of God and Wisdom, edited by G. Christianson
and T.M. Izbicki, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991; "Apocalypse Then: Christopher
Columbus's Conception of History and Prophecy," Medievalia et Humanistica,
n.s. no.19, 1993; "Languages of Gesture in Sixteenth-Century Mexico:
Some Antecedents and Transmutations," in Reframing The Renaissance:
Critical Studies in The Migration of Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
and Latin America, edited by Claire Farago, New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995; "Pictures, Gestures, Hieroglyphs: 'Mute Eloquence' in
Sixteenth-Century Mexico," in The Language Encounter in The Americas,
1492 to 1800, ed. Edward G. Gray and Norman Fiering, Berghahn Books, 2000.