His beliefs on the soul, insight into early medical practice, and perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the "father" of modern psychology.

[3] While still in Spain, he attended the University of Valencia (Estudi General), where he was taught by Jerome Amiguetus and Daniel Siso.

She admitted that as a girl of nine, her own mother had insisted following their conversion that their family continue to celebrate Yom Kippur.

In around 1524, Vives' father, grandmother, and great-grandfather, as well as several other members of their wider family, were convicted and executed by the Inquisition for Crypto-Judaism,[7] after his uncle was caught hosting a secret synagogue inside his house.

[8] A few years later (c. 1528), allegedly to avoid providing doweries to Vives' sisters, local authorities brought up their mother's heresy investigation once again.

Based on her own Yom Kippur testimony,[5] Blanquina Vives' corpse was re-exhumed and posthumously burned at the stake.

Even though his own belief in Roman Catholicism was very genuine and sincere, Vives was living at the time in Thomas More's house in Chelsea and entered a severe depressive state.

At the insistence of his friend Erasmus, he prepared an elaborate commentary on Augustine's De Civitate Dei, which was published in 1522 with a dedication to Henry VIII of England.

Once he sided in 1528 with his patroness and openly declared himself against the annulment of the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Vives immediately fell from royal favour and was confined to his house for six weeks.

On his release, he returned to Bruges, where he devoted the rest of his life to the composition of numerous ethical and philosophical writings, chiefly directed against the unquestioning authority of scholasticism within some circles, and of Aristotle in others.

[10] His most important pedagogic work are Introductio ad sapientiam (1524); De disciplinis, which stressed the urgent importance of more rational programs of education and studying; De prima philosophia; and the Exercitatio linguae latinae, which is a Latin textbook consisting of a series of brilliant[citation needed] dialogues.

[citation needed] However influential he may have been in the 16th century, Vives now attracts minimal interest beyond specialized academic fields.

The values of Vives inspired two Belgian Schools for higher education (KATHO and Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende) to choose the name 'Vives' as the name for their cooperation/merger starting from September 2013.

In 1525, the Dutch city of Bruges requested Vives to suggest means to address the issue of relief for the poor.

[15] The city of Bruges did not implement Vives's suggestions until 1557, but his proposals influenced social relief legislation enacted in England, the German Empire and the Spanish Kingsom during the 1530s[citation needed], despite critics of other thinkers and theologians.

[15] Some recent feminist and gender studies scholars have accused Vives of altering classical rhetoric to express a sort of "half-feminism".

[16][17] Among 16th century Spanish Renaissance humanism's numerous "treatises for and against women," some modern scholars have alleged that Vives "steer[ed] a middle path" (pp.

Therefore, since woman is a weak creature and of uncertain judgment and is easily deceived (as Eve, the first parent of mankind, demonstrated, whom the devil deluded with such a slight pretext), she should not teach, lest when she has convinced herself of some false opinion, she transmit it to her listeners in her role as a teacher and easily drag others into her error, since pupils willingly follow their teacher.

"[19] Also, his De institutione feminae christianae, published in 1523, was commissioned by Catherine of Aragon, Spanish Queen consort of Henry VIII of England, for her daughter, Mary.

Ironically, it forbade the very role of Queen regnant, which both Princess Mary and her younger half-sister Elizabeth would later undertake and fulfill: "An unmarried young woman should rarely appear in public .

While a wife's obedience and marital fidelity determined her honor, a husband's honor and respect in the eyes of society stemmed from his ability to be the head of his household without abusing his power, to not be abused, dominated, or controlled by his wife, and to ensure that she remained faithful to their wedding vows.

[25] He expressed the importance of animal testing before doing so on to people -–"Although Vives did not perform actual medical procedures, his suggestions were among the first of his time."

"With time, some may argue that a sort of social reform was created largely due to Vives' ideas on medicine".

His ideas were largely influenced by the ideologies that came from Galen and Hippocrates in terms of how emotion is related to bile in the body.

[26] "Vives placed special stress upon the proper environment of the school as the first ecological ingredient of the child's sense experience.