A companion to Juan Luis Vives

Preliminary Material /Ch. Fantazzi -- 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 Disciplinis as a model of a humanistic text /Valerio Del Nero -- Vives's contributions to rhetoric and dialectic /Peter Mack -- 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 -- Select bibliography /Ch. Fantazzi -- Primary sources /Ch. Fantazzi -- Secondary sources /Ch. Fantazzi -- Index /Ch. Fantazzi.

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 posthumous defense of the Christian religion in dialogue form