Vives, Juan Luis 1492-1540

The education of a Christian woman : a sixteenth-century manual by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
169 editions published between 1524 and 2002 in 9 languages and held by 994 libraries worldwide
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.

The city of God = De civitate Dei by Augustine ( Book )
130 editions published between 1512 and 1957 in 5 languages and held by 831 libraries worldwide
"As man amongst creatures, and the Church amongst men, and the Fathers in the Church, and S. Augustine amongst the Fathers, amongst the many pretious volumes, and in the rich store-house of his workes, his bookes of the City of God have a speciall preheminence. For Saint Augustine himselfe: He was a glorious light in his time,and one of the worthiest Champions that ever the Church had since the Apostles. For though he was but one of the foure Doctors of the Latine Church: yet fought he with foure of the fowlest heretikes, and cut off the heads of foure of the fowleft monsters that ever opprest the Church, namely the Arrians, the Manichees, the Denatists, and Pelagians, Such a Hercules was this holy Father that he feared not four together"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).

Introduction to wisdom; a Renaissance textbook by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
194 editions published between 1524 and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 633 libraries worldwide

Diálogos by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
201 editions published between 1539 and 2007 in 9 languages and held by 497 libraries worldwide

Vives: on education; a translation of the De tradendis disciplinis of Juan Luis Vives by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
62 editions published between 1531 and 1985 in 5 languages and held by 474 libraries worldwide

On assistance to the poor by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
71 editions published between 1530 and 2010 in 9 languages and held by 271 libraries worldwide
"'I wish we were able to eliminate poverty completely in this city.' Those words echo a sentiment that could have been written yesterday, but represent the feelings of Juan Luis Vives, a Spanish humanist living in Bruges in 1526. The urban problems of sixteenth-century Bruges seem very familiar to the modern reader: poverty, overcrowding, crime, the problems of the mentally ill, and the issue of the responsibility of government for the care of the poor. Published in 1526, On Assistance to the Poor was Vives's effort to bring forward these questions to the City Council of Bruges, and have them addressed by local government. His distinctive development of a single integrated system out of the several practices already in use in Northern Europe presaged the English Poor Laws of 1601 and later laws in the New World." "This edition, originally published in 1971 with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Alice Tobriner, is a valuable primary source in Renaissance social history."--BOOK JACKET.

Tratado del alma by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
63 editions published between 1538 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 261 libraries worldwide

In pseudodialecticos by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
5 editions published in 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 253 libraries worldwide

Juan Luis Vives against the pseudodialecticians : a humanist attack on medieval logic : The attack on the pseudialecticians and On dialectic, book III, v, vi, vii, from the causes of the corruption of the arts, with an appendix of related passages by Thomas More : the texts by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
6 editions published between 1520 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 248 libraries worldwide

Obras completas by Juan Luis Vives ( Book )
9 editions published in 1992 in Spanish and held by 243 libraries worldwide