Reinventing the wheel: Pedro de Guevara's Nueva y sutil invencion as pedagogical technology.
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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 293 - 312 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2020
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