Doctrinal and devotional literature in schools of Spanish Baroque. The Memento mori as a school subject

Autor: José Vicente SALIDO LÓPEZ
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Historia de la Educación, Vol 34, Iss 0, Pp 221-243 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0212-0267
2386-3846
20153422
DOI: 10.14201/hedu201534221243
Popis: The influence of the Counter-Reformation is fundamental to deal the educational models of the late sixteenth century and Baroque. The religious education became the main focus of the primary schools. It is for that reason that materials for reading and writing include texts from doctrinal and devotional works. In the Baroque, because of his particular vision of life, are enriched with reflections on death and worldly vanity. This article aims to analyze the main calligraphy manuals of the period to find this moralizing purpose in exercises for students, tracking the sources and the pedagogical principle followed by their authors.
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