Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions

By looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives’ intellectual oeuvre . It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct speech was not a possibility, demonstrated how Erasmian languages of ethical self-government and political peace were actualised rhetorically and critically in a princely environment, and finally, rethought the cognitive and emotional foundations of humanist rhetoric in his late and famous De anima