| A Companion to Juan Luis Vives Contributor(s): Fantazzi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004168540 ISBN-13: 9789004168541 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $213.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: The Companion contains chapters on Vives's life and writings, including his works on the education of women, relief of the poor, political treatises, works on rhetoric and dialectic, defense of the Christian religion, and later influence. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 196.1 |
| LCCN: 2008022861 |
| Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.5" W x 9.5" (1.90 lbs) 430 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The extraordinarily diverse oeuvre of Juan Luis Vives, marked by great erudition and originality, still remains very little known in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays considers his life and the influence of his writings, and examines some of his chief works. These include his books on the education of women and on the relief of the poor, his numerous political writings, and his huge encyclopedic treatise, De disciplinis, a comprehensive critical and systematic review of universal learning and the state of the academic disciplines at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters discuss Vives's ideas on the soul, especially his analysis of the emotions, his contribution to rhetoric and dialectic and a posthumous defense of the Christian religion in dialogue form. Contributors are Enrique Gonzalez Gonzalez, Catherine Curtis, Peter Mack, Valerio Del Nero, Edward V. George. |