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Tudor School-Boy Life

by Juan Luis Vives

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  1. 1J. L. Vives: A Scholar of the Renascence 1492–1492
  2. 2The Significance of the Dialogues of J. L. Vives
  3. 3The Dedication of the School-Dialogues of Vives
  4. 4Home and School Life
  5. 5Subject-matter and Style
  6. 6Popularity
  7. 7The Greek Words in Vives’ Dialogues
  8. 8Euphrosynus Lapinius
  9. 9Style
  10. 10Characteristics of Vives as a Writer of Dialogues
  11. 11Vives as a Precursor of the Drama
  12. 12Some Educational Aspects of Vives’ Dialogues
  13. 13Vives’ Idea of the School
  14. 14Games
  15. 15Nature Study
  16. 16Wine-drinking and Water-drinking
  17. 17The Vernacular
  18. 18The Educational Ideal of Vives
  19. 19Vives’ Last Dialogue: The Precepts of Education
  20. 20I — Surrectio Matutina — Getting Up in the Morning
  21. 21I — Getting Up
  22. 22II — Dressing
  23. 23III — Using the Comb
  24. 24IV — Washing
  25. 25V — Prayer
  26. 26II — Prima Salutatio — Morning Greetings
  27. 27I — Morning Salutation
  28. 28II — Playing With the Dog
  29. 29III — The Father’s Little Talk With His Boy
  30. 30III — Deductio AD Ludum — Escorting to School
  31. 31IV — Euntes AD Ludum Literarium — Going to School
  32. 32V — Lectio — Reading
  33. 33VI — Reditus Domum et Lusus Puerilis — The Return Home and Children…
  34. 34I — The Game of Nuts
  35. 35II — The Game of Odd and Even
  36. 36III — The Game of Dice
  37. 37IV — The Game of Draughts
  38. 38V — Playing Cards
  39. 39VII — Refectio Scholastica — School Meals
  40. 40I — Breakfast — II — Lunch — Food — Drink
  41. 41III — Afternoon Meal
  42. 42IV — Chief Meal
  43. 43V — Sleeping Draught
  44. 44The Cups
  45. 45Grace Before Meat
  46. 46Grammatical Questions — 1. On Genders. 2. on Tenses
  47. 47Pronunciation
  48. 48Manners at Table — The Clearing of the Table
  49. 49Grace After the Meal
  50. 50VIII — Garrientes — Students’ Chatter
  51. 51I — Story of the Trunk
  52. 52II — The Hour-Bells
  53. 53III — The Timepiece
  54. 54IV — The French
  55. 55V — The Deaf Woman
  56. 56VI — The Lost Book
  57. 57VII — The Twins
  58. 58VIII — Mannius the Hunter
  59. 59IX — Curius the Dicer
  60. 60X — The Nightingale and the Cuckoo
  61. 61XI — Our Masters
  62. 62XII — Clodius the Lover
  63. 63XIII — Lusco the Merchant
  64. 64XIV — Antony the “Cook”
  65. 65XV — The Tumbler
  66. 66XVI — Hermogenes
  67. 67XVII — The Boorish Youth
  68. 68XVIII — The Man With the Neck Chain
  69. 69XIX — The Overseer of Studies
  70. 70IX — Iter et Equus — Journey on Horseback
  71. 71X — Scriptio — Writing
  72. 72I — The Usefulness of Writing
  73. 73Nobles
  74. 74II — The Writing-master
  75. 75True Nobility
  76. 76III — Modes of Writing
  77. 77IV — The Making of (Quill) Pens
  78. 78V — Ink
  79. 79VI — Paper
  80. 80VII — The Copy
  81. 81What Should Be Avoided in Writing
  82. 82VIII — Forming Letters in Writing
  83. 83XI — Vestitus et Deambulatio Matutina — Getting Dressed and the Mor…
  84. 843 — Smell. 4. Taste. 5. Touch
  85. 85The Mind
  86. 86XII — Domus — The New House
  87. 87XIII — Schola — The School
  88. 88I — The Teachers
  89. 89II — Grades or Honours of Scholars — Tyro — Baccalaureus — Licentia…
  90. 90The Rector
  91. 91III — Hours of Teaching and Repetition
  92. 92IV — Authors
  93. 93V — The Library
  94. 94VI — The Disputation — 1. The Praeses
  95. 95XIV — Cubiculum et Lucubratio — The Sleeping-room and Studies by Night
  96. 96I — Studies by Night
  97. 97Time
  98. 98Circumstances Aiding Studies
  99. 99Subjects of Study
  100. 100II — The Bed — Its Equipment
  101. 101Adjuncts
  102. 102XV — Culina — The Kitchen
  103. 103I — The Hiring of Apicius
  104. 104II — The Precepts of Apicius
  105. 105III — Songs
  106. 106XVI — Triclinium — The Dining-room
  107. 107I — The Introduction (Initium)
  108. 108II — Narration — Description of Scopas
  109. 109Description of the Dining-hall
  110. 110XVII — Convivium — The Banquet
  111. 111I — The Beginning (Initium)
  112. 112II — First Course — Bread
  113. 113Fruits
  114. 114Meats
  115. 115Wine
  116. 116Drinking
  117. 117Water
  118. 118Beer
  119. 119Pottage
  120. 120Fish
  121. 121Birds
  122. 122III — Second Course
  123. 123IV — End of the Banquet
  124. 124XVIII — Ebrietas — Drunkenness
  125. 125I — Exordium
  126. 126Digression
  127. 127II — The Exposition (Narratio)
  128. 128Cause
  129. 129Effects
  130. 130XIX — Regia — The King’s Palace
  131. 131I — Introduction (Exordium)
  132. 132Apparel — The Countenance
  133. 133II — Exposition (Narratio) — The King
  134. 134The Dauphin — Dignitaries — Prefects
  135. 135Counsellors
  136. 136Secretaries
  137. 137Courtiers
  138. 138Chancellor — Secretary — Litigants — Prefect of the Bed-chamber
  139. 139Master of the Feast
  140. 140Ladies’ Quarters
  141. 141Leisure Time — Flattery
  142. 142XX — Princeps Puer — The Young Prince
  143. 143I — The Teaching of Morobulus — The Study of Literature
  144. 144Teachers
  145. 145The Act of Governing
  146. 146First Similitude
  147. 147Second Similitude
  148. 148Third Similitude
  149. 149How the Art of Governing Is to Be Acquired
  150. 1501 — Teachers No Longer Living
  151. 1512 — Living Teachers
  152. 152The Sort of Leisure to Be Shunned — The Assertion of the Similitude…
  153. 153Its Explanation (Apodosis)
  154. 154XXI — Ludus Chartarum Seu Foliorum — Card-playing or Paper-games
  155. 155I — Introduction on the Weather
  156. 156II — The Playing — Drawing Lots
  157. 157Partners
  158. 158Modes of Distribution of Cards
  159. 159The Stake
  160. 160The Contest
  161. 161End of the Game
  162. 162XXII — Leges Ludi — Laws of Playing — A Varied Dialogue on the City…
  163. 163Part I — Lutetia
  164. 164Valencia
  165. 165Walk Through the City of Valencia
  166. 166Games — Ball
  167. 167The Market
  168. 168Part II — The Laws of Play — The First Law
  169. 169The Second Law
  170. 170The Third Law
  171. 171The Fourth Law
  172. 172The Fifth Law
  173. 173The Sixth Law
  174. 174XXIII — Corpus Hominis Exterius — The Exterior of Man’s Body
  175. 175I — Introduction (Exordium)
  176. 176II — Criticism
  177. 177XXIV — Educatio — Education
  178. 178I — Introduction (Exordium)
  179. 179II — The Controversy
  180. 180Family Teaching
  181. 181The Real “Good”
  182. 182The Statement of the Problem (Propositio)
  183. 183Assumptio (Hypothesis) — Complexio (Conclusion)
  184. 184III — Epilogue
  185. 185I — Introductory (Exordium)
  186. 186II — The Exposition (Narratio)
  187. 187The Precepts
  188. 188III — Epilogue

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