J.L. Vives: De Institutione Feminae Christianae, Liber Secundus & Liber Tertius
J.L. Vives: De Institutione Feminae Christianae, Liber Secundus & Liber Tertius

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9789004110908

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This is a critical edition of Books II and III of Juan Luis Vives, De Institutione Feminae Christianae, with facing English translation, full critical apparatus and pertinent commentary. It is the most-important treatise of the Renaissance on the education of women, with far-reaching influence through the centuries.

De Institutione Feminae Christianae
De Institutione Feminae Christianae

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9789004106598

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Vives' tract on the eduction of women, De Institutione Feminae Christianae (1524, revised 1538) became a model for conduct books in various Protestant traditions and as such has always been of interest to historians of education. However, the treatise also made a very important contribution to the querelle des femmes of its time and has consequently generated much interest among modern historians of women and gender. It consists of 3 books, one for each stage of woman's life - maidenhood, marriage and widowhood. The only English translation of the text on offer till now was the inaccurate and free version of Richard Hyrde (a friend of Thomas More), published early in the 10th century by Foster Watson, but now unavailable. This edition offers a new Latin text with a double apparatus and a facing-page English translation with notes, with an introduction to the edition and the text. Volume I (1996) contains Book I, volume 2 covers Books II-III.

Declamationes Sullanae
Declamationes Sullanae

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: Selected Works of Juan Luis Vi

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9789004087866

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This is a critical, annotated, bilingual edition, with introduction, notes, and indices, of the first two of Vives' five dramatic speeches on the theme of the abdication of the late Roman Republican dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. These speeches belong among Vives' experiments, in the years 1514-1523, with various imaginative genres, in which he was trying techniques of personal involvement of both himself and the reader in exploration of pressing issues, whether political, ethical, or esthetic. The fundamental theme is the danger of ruling by fear. Sulla's two friends, Fundanus and Fonteius, counsel respectively against and for Sulla's retirement when Rome is full of vengeful survivors of his savage proscriptions.

J.L. Vives: De Subventione Pauperum sive De Humanis Necessitatibus, Libri II
J.L. Vives: De Subventione Pauperum sive De Humanis Necessitatibus, Libri II

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-06-20

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9004453563

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This work by the Spanish humanist and philosopher, Juan Luis Vives, is the first tract of its kind in the Western world to treat the problem of urban poverty and propose concrete suggestions for a policy of social legislation. The treatise, published in 1526, is dedicated to the civil authorities of Bruges and deals specifically with the problems of that city, but with potential universal application. Vives calls upon the wealthy to share their blessings with those less fortunate, emphasizing that possessions are not given to us for our own use only but to share them with our neighbour. The reader will often find Vives' reflections and solutions surprisingly modern. The book includes an edition of the Latin text and an English translation.

J.L. Vives: De ratione dicendi
J.L. Vives: De ratione dicendi

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 9004354778

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Juan Luis Vives’ 1533 treatise on rhetoric, De ratione dicendi, is a highly original but largely neglected Renaissance Latin text. David Walker’s critical edition, with introduction, facing translation and notes, is the first to appear in English. The conception of rhetoric which Vives elaborates in the De ratione dicendi differs significantly from that which is found in other rhetorical treatises written during the humanist Renaissance. Rhetoric as Vives conceives it is part of the discipline of self-knowledge, and involves a distinct way of thinking about the way kinds of rhetorical style manifested modes of human life. Moving as it did from the concrete particulars of a man’s style to their abstractable implications, the study of rhetoric was for him a form of moral thinking which enabled the student to develop a critical framework for understanding the world he lived in.

J.L. Vives: De officio mariti
J.L. Vives: De officio mariti

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9047411056

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This treatise is a sequel to Vives’ On the Education of the Christian Woman, published in Brill’s series, Selected Works of J.L. Vives. It studies the institution of marriage from a male vantage point, with interesting observations on female psychology, anticipating his later work, De anima. Vives insists more here on the weakness and instability of the woman than in the previous treatise, relying on the biological tenets of Aristotle and Galen. Much attention is given to the choice of a wife and to the husband’s role as tutor of his spouse and disciplinarian. The marriage debt is regarded as a necessary evil, as in St. Paul, while the spirituality of the union is exalted. The book was often printed together with the De institutione feminae Christianae and even considered as a fourth book of that work.