Reinventing the wheel
Pedro de Guevara’s Nueva y sutil invencion as pedagogical technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12670185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noel Blanco Mourelle (0000-0001-9939-8503, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-311 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-6204 • E-ISSN: 1469-9818 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14636204.2020.1801282 |
| OpenAlex | W3049741956 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This article shows that the Spanish court was an experimental pedagogical space oriented toward cultivating women as political subjects. In order to do so, I will examine Pedro de Guevara’s Nueva y sutil invencion, en seys instrumentos (1581), a primer containing a Latin grammar game written in the vernacular, designed for Philip II’s daughters, Isabel Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela. The novelty of the game is that it is built around a series of circular paper mechanisms, called instrumentos, that allow the player-student to learn Latin as a combination of grammatical elements present on a wheel, as opposed to the rote memorization of canonical passages. In this article, I will show that Pedro de Guevara based these instrumentos on the fourth figure of Ramon Llull’s Art and that this adaptation is linked to the work of a Lullist circle with royal sponsorship. Guevara’s role as preceptor and, thus, supervisor of the education of the infantas Isabel and Catalina shows that Philip II’s Lullism had both public and private implications that the king assumed as a natural part of his interest in the Art. The creation of the instruments in the form of wheels in Guevara’s primer elucidates how early modern authors transformed a medieval tool of knowledge through conceptual debate and material alterations
Art · Character (mathematics · Humanities · Literature · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vernacular · Classics · Early Modern Spanish Literature · Early Modern Women Writers · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Law · Mathematics
El «Trivium» y el Arte de Llull en «La escala del entendimiento» de Pedro de Guevara
The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull
Ramon Llull as a Vernacular Writer
The Reception of the Lullian Art, 1450-1530
Toward an Art History of Spanish Italy
Las infantas Isabel Clara Eugenia y Catalina Micaela
(Check)Mating the Grand Masters
Chess and Courtly Culture in Medieval Castile
Here's Looking at Me
El proceso de la Inquisición contra la lectura del Arte de Ramón Llull en la Universidad de Zaragoza (1610)
O decus Italiae virgo’, or The Myth of the Learned Lady in the Renaissance
Selected Works of Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
De la cartilla al libro
Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |