Tudor school-boy life: the dialogues of Juan Luis Vives

by Juan Luis Vives

INDEX

[Large Roman numerals refer to the number of the Dialogue; small Roman numerals refer to the pages of the Introduction; Arabic numerals refer to the pages of the text.]

• A B C tablet, [18]
• Academy, the, [xxxix.]
• Agonotheta, [106]
• Alarum-clock, [116]
• Anneus, a teacher, [xliii.], [204]
• Apparel, court, [163]
• Architriclinus (feast-master), [30]
• Aristotle, [36], [47], [102], [147]
• Ascham, Roger, [xli.]
• Atlantides, [98]
  
• Bacchus, [151], [156]
• Baldus, [106]
• Banquet, [126], [132]
• “Baptising” wine, [139]
• Bardus, [107]
• Bartolus, [106]
• Batalarii, [102], [103], [106]
• Beer, [92], [141]
• Beggar, [43]
• Bird, the teacher, [89]
• Birds, different kinds of, [144]
• Blacksmith, [82]
• Boatmen, the scum of the sea, [59]
• Boccaccio, [96]
• Bömer, Dr., [xxii.]
• Book-gluer, [114]
• Books, [179]
• Boorish youth, [52]
• Boulogne, [56]
• Bread, different kinds of, [134]
• Breakfast, [8], [27]
• Bruges, [33], [34]
• Budaeus (William Budé), [vii.]
• Buffoons, [170]
• Busts of authors in library, [105]
  
• Candles, [110]
• Card-playing, [XXI.]
• Catharine of Aragon, [xv.], [xvi.], [xxviii.], [96]
• Catholicon, The, [105]
• Cato’s distichs quoted, [137]
• Caryatides, [98]
• Cervent, Clara, mother of Vives’ wife, [xi.]
• Chancellor, the, [167]
• Characteristics of the Dialogues, [xxxvii.]
• Charts or maps, [186]
• Cheese, [12], [145]
• Cherries, buying of, [17];
  • cherry-stones as stakes, [23]
• Child, and rattle, [53]
• Chrysostom, homilies of, [151]
• Chytropus, [120]
• Cicero, [113];
  • Tusculanae Questiones, [42], [114]
• Circe, cup of, [170]
• Clock, [81]; mechanical, [82]
• Clothes, [84] sqq.
• Comb, [4];
  • ivory, [85]
• Constable, the, [165]
• “Cooking” accounts, [50]
• Cook-shop, [118]
• Copies, writing, [74]
• Copper-knobs on books, [113]
• Counsellors of the king, [166]
• Courtiers of the king, [167]
• Cuckoo, the, [46]
• Cups, [31], [51], [128]
  
• Dauphin, the, [165]
• Dead men can speak, [178]
• Deafness, [42]
• de Croy, Cardinal, Vives’ pupil, [xii.]
• Dedication of Vives’ School Dialogues, [xxi.]
  • Delights of Sight, [88;]
  • of Hearing, [89;]
  • of Smell, [89;]
  • of Taste, [89;]
  • of Touch, [90]
• Demosthenes, [113]
• Dialectic, [102]
• Dice-player, Curius the, [44]
• Dignitaries of the court, [165]
• Dilia, river, [83]
• Dining-room, [96], [128]
• Diogenes, [125], [136]
• Discovery of the New World, [95]
• Disease of thirst, [161]
• Disputing, [20]
• Dog, [7], [15], [41], [44]
• Door-angels, [94]
• Drama, and the Dialogues, [xxxvii.]
• Drawing lots, [189]
• Dressing, [2] sqq.
• Drinking, [27], [28], [30], [45];
  • water, [28], [42;]
  • wine, [28], [42;]
  • beer, [31]
• Drivers, the scum of the earth, [59]
• Drunkenness, [xlvi.], [XVIII.];
  • effects of, [160]
• Dullard, John, [xi.]
• Dürer, Albrecht, [210]
• Dury, John, and the Academy, [xl.]
  
• Earth, the, a fruitful mother, [53]
• Eating, [27]
• Education, [XXIV.];
  • noble, [233]
• Elegance of clothes as well as words, [47]
• Elyot, Sir Thomas, [xxxv.], [xli.]
• Erasmus, [vii.], [xi.]
• Exercitatio, the Latin title for the Dialogues, [vii.]
  
• Fish, different kinds of, [143]
• “Flat” wine, [139]
• Flea, [83], [115]
• Fleming, [33];
  • without a knife, [33]
• Florus quoted, [122]
• Foods, [37], [VII.], [92], [XV.]
• Freigius, J. T., editor of Dialogues, [xxxiv.], [li.]
• Frenchmen, [104]
• Friendships arranged for children by parents, [242]
• Fruits, [135.] sqq.
  
• Games, [xli.];
  • ball, [2;]
  • dice-playing, [2], [13], [23;]
  • nuts, [22;]
  • odd and even, [22;]
  • draughts, [24;]
  • playing-cards, [24;]
  • tennis, [202]
• Genders, number of, [35]
• German, [120]
• Geometry, [16]
• Getting up, [1]
• Godelina of Flanders, [96]
• Goldfinch, [127]
• Good, the real, [228] sqq.
• Governing, art of, [177]
• Grace before meat, [33], [131];
  • after meat, [38], [148]
• Grammar, [2], [35], [102]
• Grammarians, asses, [119], [120]
• Greek in the Dialogues, [xxxv.]
• Greetings, morning, [6]
• Griselda, [96]
• Guest, school-boy, [32]
  
• Helen, [97]
• Holiday from school, [56]
• Holocolax, [165]
• Home and school life, [xxiii.]
• Homer, [97]
• Horace quoted, [53], [135]
• Horses, and their trappings, [IX.]
• Host, a kindly, [153]
• Hour-bells, [40]
• Hours of teaching, [103]
• House, the new, [93];
  • keeper, [32]
• Housteville, Aegidius de, [xxxvi.]
• Hugutio, [105]
• Hunter, Mannius the, [44]
  
• Ink, [72]
• Inscriptions in houses, [97]
• Intemperance, [241]
• Isocrates quoted, [177]
  
• Joannius, Honoratus, learned man of Valencia, [205]
• Joviality, the gate of drunkenness, [161]
• Jugglers, [170]
  
• Keeper of Archives, the, [167]
• King, the, [165];
  • the palace of the, [163]
• Kitchen, the, [XV.], [31];
  • maid, [31]
    
• Ladies’ quarters in the court, [169]
• Lapinius, Euphrosynus, [xxxvi.]
• Latin speaking, [xxx.], [34]
• Laws of play, [xliii.], [206]-9
• Lebrija (or Nebrissensis), Antonio de, [x.], [65]
• Lecture-room, [65]
• Letter-carrier, [51], [70]
• Letters, [18], [21]
• Library, school, [105]
• Licentiates, [103]
• Lie-telling, [13]
• Life, a journey, [179]
• Literature out of the class-room, [188]
• Litigants of the king’s court, [167]
• Livy, lost decads, [211]
• Logic, [2]
• Louvain, inhabitants of (Lovanians), [47]
• Lover, the, [48]
• Lucretia, picture of, [95]
• Ludus literarius, a playing with letters, the Latin for a school, [19]
• Lunch, [27]
• Lutetia (Paris), [199]
• Lying, [241]
• Lyons, [116]
  
• Magistrates, honour due to, [237]
• Maid-servants, [I.], [VI.], [VII.], [52], [83]
• Manners, at table, [37]
• Maps, [xlii.]
• March, family name of Vives’ mother, [vii.]
• Market, the, at Valencia, [205]
• Martial quoted, [45], [79], [81], [122], [123]
• Master of the feast, the king’s, [168]
• Master of the horse, [165]
• Market, [36]
• Meals, [24]
• Meats, [137]
• Mena, Juan de, quoted, [xlv.], [88]
• Merchant, the, [49]
• Miller, the, [134]
• Milton, John, [xxvii.], [xl.]
• Mimus quoted, [156]
• Modesty, real and fictitious, [227]
• Monastery, Carthusian, [87];
  • Franciscan, [87]
• Moor, a white, [23]
• Morning best for learning, [92]
• Mortar, [122]
• Mosquito-net, [115]
• Motta, Peter, [xxxv.], [xxxvi.]
• Mountebank, [3]
• Mulcaster, Richard, [xxiv.], [xli.]
• Muses, number of the, [136]
• Music of birds, [89]
• Mysteries, study of, by nobles, [222]
  
• Names of Vives’ friends in the Dialogues, [xxxiii.]
• Napkin, [32], [130], [131]
• Nature, in the Dialogues, [xliv.]
• Nazianzenus, [113]
• Neapolitan horse, [176]
• Nebrissensis, Antonius, see Lebrija
• Nightingale, the, [45], [88]-9
• Night-studies, [110], [111], [112]
• Noah, [157]
• Nobility, ignorance of writing, [67];
  • contempt of knowledge, [69]
• Nobles and education, [XXIV.]
• Nut-shells, used by boys for ants’ houses, [22]
  
• Obedience to the laws, [239]
• Occupation of courtiers, [170]
• Old men, [180], [228]
• One-eyed carpenter, [52]
• Opinions of Vives held by Budé, Erasmus, xii.;
  • and Sir Thomas More, [xiii.]
• Oppugnator, [107]
• Orbilius, the schoolmaster, [91]
• Ovid quoted, [78], [116], [234]
  
• Painting, [XXIII.]
• Palimpsist, [71]
• Pantry, [36]
• Paper, [73]
• Papias, [105]
• Paris, [116];
  • University of, [199]
• Parts of the body, [XXIII.]
• Pastry-cook, [147]
• Paul, the Apostle, [96]
• Pauline precept, [141]
• Persians, [136], [215]
• Persius quoted, [80]
• Pestle, [122]
• Philip, Prince, [xxii.], [xxvii.], [xxviii.], [XX.];
  • “the darling of Spain,” [176]
• Philosophers, [46]
• Physicians and wine, [140]
• Pictures, [95]
• Pietas literata, ideal of, [xlviii.]
• Piety, [145]
• Plato, [36], [105];
  • authority of, [239]
• Plautus quoted, [152], [207]
• Play of being king, [175]
• Playing with dog, [7]
• Pliny, [20], [40], [46], [88], [149]
• Points, [2], [23]
• Polaemon, [232]
• Popularity-hunting, [222]
• Pottage, [142]
• Prayer, [5];
  • the Lord’s, [5;]
  • morning, [1], [83], [87;]
  • to the saints, [234;]
  • to Christ, [237]
• Preachers in churches, [225]
• Precepts of education, [l.], [XXV.]
• Priests and literature, [173]
• Principal (gymnasiarcha), [43]
• Propugnator, [107]
• Pythagoras, [116]
  
• Quills, [70];
  • quill-sheath, [70;]
  • goose-quills, [71;]
  • hen’s quills, [71;]
  • making of quill-pens, [71]
• Quintilian quoted, [65]
  
• Reading, [18] sqq.
• Recreation, grounds, [87];
  • in bad weather, [185]
• Reeds (pens), [70], [113]
• Respect to the old, [237]
• Reverence of priests, [237]
• Rhetoric, [102]
• River, [61], [183]
• Rome, [118]
• Rope-dancer (funambulus), [51]
• Rush-mats, [97]
  
• Saviour, our, quoted, [141]
• Scaevola, Mutius, [97]
• Scaevolae, [217]
• Scholarship ill-esteemed in Belgium, [154]
• School, [2], [8], [9], [10], [11], [19];
  • Vives’ idea of the, [xxxix.]
• School-fees, [10]
• Schoolmasters, [9], [15], [36], [122], [123], [136]
• Scipio Africanus, [210]
• Seal, of letters, [70]
• Secretaries to nobles, [70]
• Silence before elders and superiors, [238]
• Siliceus, literary tutor of Prince Philip, [173]
• Sister, Vives’, [201]
• Sky, the open, [64]
• Slavery of ignorance, [174]
• Sluggishness, danger of, [184]
• Socrates, [105]
• Sophocles, [114]
• Spaniards, [92], [104]
• Spanish cap, [87]
• Spanish inn, [126]
• Spanish navigations, [95]
• Spanish triumph (in cards), [189]
• Spring, [88]
• Stakes, [23], [191]
• Statues in a house, [96] sqq.
• Statutes of schools enjoining Vives’ Dialogues, [xxxiv.]
• “Still” wine, [139]
• Stories, nineteen, told by students, [VIII.]
• Stunica, educator of Prince Philip, [173]
• Style of Dialogues, [xxxvi.]
• Styles (pens), [70]
• Subject-matter and style of Dialogues, [xxxii.]
• Suits in cards, names of, [189]
• Summer-house, [97]
• Sun-dial, [82]
• Syracusans, [111]
  
• Tapestry, [97]
• Teacher, [54], [101];
  • choice of, [9], [19], [25], [31]
• Teachers in Belgium, [154];
  • Pandulfus, [56;]
  • the best living, [179;]
  • clients of nobles, [223]
• Tennis in France and Belgium, [202];
  • in Valencia, [203]
• “Thanks” to a host, [148]-9
• Thrashing by teachers, [70]
• Tongs, [119]
• Trunk, story arising from the, [39]
• Truth and flattery at court, [170]-1
• Truth-speaking, [241]
• Tumbler, the, [51]
• Turkey-carpets, [130]
• Twins, [43]
• Tyrones, [102]
  
• Umpire, [25]
• Urbanity, [233]
• Ushers’ conversation at school-meal, [35] sqq.
  
• Valdaura, Margaret, wife of Vives, [xi.], [xxxiii.]
• Valencia, city of, [XXII.]
• Valerius Maximus, [95]
• Valla, Laurentius, [xx.], [47]
• Vegetables, selling of, [15]
• Vergil, [40], [54], [91], [112], [123], [136]
• Vernacular, in education, [xlvi.]-xlviii.
• Vernacular literature before the Renascence, [xviii.]
• Verse-maker, Mannius the, [44]
• Verse-making, [123]
• Vives, J. L., at school at Valencia, [ix.];
  • his schoolmasters, [x.];
  • one of the Renascence triumvirate, [vii.];
  • his parents, [vii.]-ix.;
  • and scholasticism, [ix.];
  • at Paris, [xi.];
  • at Bruges, [xi.];
  • at Louvain, [xi.];
  • at Lyons, [xi.];
  • and Princess Mary, [xiv.];
  • life in London, [xv.];
  • his wife, Margaret Valdaura, [xv.];
  • and boys, xxxvii., [l.];
  • his De Tradendis Disciplinis, vii., x., [xvi.];
  • his De Institutione Feminae Christianae, viii., [xiv.];
  • commentary on St. Augustine’s Civitas Dei, [xiii.];
  • his Introductio ad Sapientiam, [xv.];
  • his De Officio Mariti, [xvi.];
  • his De Europae Dissidiis et Bello Turico, [xvi.];
  • his De Veritate Fidei Christianae, [xvi.];
  • his De Anima, [xvi.]
• Vives, J. L., references to himself in the Dialogues: a sufferer from gout, [34];
  • names wells in the city of Louvain, [92;]
  • his verse-writing, [196]-7;
  • his father’s house in Valencia, [201]
    
• Wainscoting, [97]
• Wash-basins, [129]
• Washing, [4], [86]
• Watch (horologium viatorium), [40]
• Water, [92], [141]
• Water-drinking, [xlv.]
• Well, the Latin and the Greek at Louvain, [92]
• Whist, French and Spanish, [189]
• Wife of a drunkard, [151]
• Winding-stairs, [96]
• Window-panes, [96]
• Windows, wooden and glass, [1]
• Wine, [137]
• Wine-cellar, [98]
• Wine-drinking, [xlv.]
• Writing, [X.];
  • usefulness of, [66;]
  • writing-master, [68]
• Writing-tablet, [21]
  
• Xenocrates, [232]
• Xenophon, [105], [113]
  
• Zabatta, Angela, learned lady of Valencia, [201]

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