Today we mark the death of Juan Luis Vives, a Spanish scholar from Valencia, and advisor to Catherine of Aragon. He was also very much involved in planning the education of Princess Mary. His beliefs on the soul, insight into early medical practice, and perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the father of modern psychology.
From Wikipedia: He focused much of his studies on the role of memory in learning. He defined memory as “…relating to the past, while perception relates to the present” “Memory is something that is retained by either externally or internally perceiving it”. He especially emphasized how humans imagine something internally and connect it with an event in order to create a memory. This, according to Vives, makes information retrieval of memory easier.
He wrote The Education of a Christian Woman, and dedicated it to Catherine of Aragon, but that was just one of his many works. Juan Luis Vives who said: La fuente de la vida es el corazón, died today in 1540.
That’s your Tudor Minute for today. You can dive deeper into life in 16th century England at Englandcast.com where there is an episode on education in Tudor England.
Suggested link:
Education in Tudor England
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  the original Tudor history podcast, started in 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. In 2019 she created Tudorcon, which is now a yearly event, in addition to writing books, and running TudorFair.com - a whimsical Tudor Merch shop.
She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 30 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history (how exciting when she got to interview Alison for the first time!). In addition to history, she is passionate about travel, and has lived in 3 countries and 4 states (not counting her perpetual state of confusion), and her family (who help her host her YouTube channel occasionally).
