A companion to Juan Luis Vives /

A collection of essays which considers Juan Luis Vives' life and the influence of his writings, and examines some of his chief works. It includes chapters that discuss Vives' ideas on the soul, especially his analysis of the emotions, his contribution to rhetoric and dialectic and a posthu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fantazzi, Charles
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 12.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=308488
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Charles Fantazzi
  • Juan Luis Vives : works and days / Enrique González González
  • Vives and the emarginati / Charles Fantazzi
  • The social and political thought of Juan Luis Vives : concord and counsel in the Christian commonwealth / Catherine Curtis
  • The De isciplinis as a model of a humanistic text / Valerio Del Nero
  • Vives's contributions to rhetoric and dialectic / Peter Mack
  • A philosophical treatise on the soul : De anima et vita in the context of Vives's Opus / Valerio Del Nero
  • Author, adversary, and reader : a view of the De veritate fidei Christianae / Edward V. George
  • Fame and oblivion / Enrique González González.