secret diaries of Juan Luis Vives: a novel
TitleThe secret diaries of Juan Luis Vives: a novel
Author
Call number809.88924/0051
Object number10774
Place of publicationCanada
PublisherTellwell Talent
Year of publication
2020
Physical descriptionxv, 254p.
MaterialBook
ISBN9780228834373
Description
It is 1522, The Spanish Netherlands, Juan Luis Vives, a renowned academic, has fled Spain to avoid the fires of the Inquisition, yet even here he is not safe. When England's Sir Thomas More offers him the role of tutor to Mary, daughter of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, he eagerly accepts. While publicly navigating life as a 'New Christian,' Vives is quickly drawn into the secretive and dangerous world of London's Jewish community a foot in each world, he is torn between the love of two women.