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Referenced in Bernal Diaz's quote describing the Spanish reaction to seeing Tenochtitlan: 'we thought it was a magical scene from the Book of Mardis' - this refers to the famous Spanish chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula

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Described as 'our best Spanish source' for the conquest - this is Bernal Diaz's memoir of the conquest, referenced multiple times throughout for eyewitness accounts

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Explicitly mentioned as 'a book-length study by the Mexican historian Juan Mirales examining the reliability or otherwise of Bernal Diaz'

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Referenced as 'brilliant work on her by Camilla Townsend' regarding Malinche's agency, described as 'a historian we talked about last time' - refers to her scholarly work on the conquest

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Explicitly mentioned: 'If you read Hugh Thomas's book, Conquest' in the context of discussing what sources say about Montezuma's supposed surrender speech

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Referenced as 'one on the meeting of Cortez and Montezuma' - described as one of the most intellectually exciting historiographical experiences, came out around 2018-2019

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Explicitly mentioned as one of a couple of books by Matthew Restall on this topic, discussing revisionist historiography of the conquest

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Mentioned as a comparison for intellectual excitement: 'reading Patricia Croner on The Origins of Islam for the first time' - refers to her revisionist work on early Islamic history