Mens sana in corpore sano. Education of body within the Spanish Counter Reformation, xvi and xvii centuries ; Mens sana in corpore sano. Sobre la educación del cuerpo en la Contrarreforma española, siglos xvi y xvii

The genealogy of physical education and modern sport has a civilizing and pedagogical foundation. This was forged through the disciplinary codes of Catholic morality that used the classic aphorism: Mens sana in corpora sano. In Spain, Counter-Reformationused education with the purpose of building a solid Catholic state. Methodologies used, characterized by the sense of eutrapelia and emulation, were devices that acted in the modeling of corporal docility and the Christian gentleman. In this way, different social uses of corporality appeared, both in education, as in military training, recreation and people‘s work and their religious life. From this an ethical and bourgeois conception arose that, through play, emulation and eutrapelia, based the foundations of a capitalism and a new way of imagining the world. The analysis of this conception and sense of corporality in the Counter Reformation (xvi and xvii centuries) is the object of study in this work. The methodology has been based on the analysis of the main primary sources, which have been contextualized with subsequent works that contribute to create a certain hermeneutic vision to the study. It’s concluded that education of body at this time was an excuse to promote a national, patriotic and servile ideal to the Spanish homeland. ; La genealogía de la educación física y el deporte moderno tiene una fundamentación civilizadora y pedagógica, forjada a través de los códigos disciplinares de la moral católica que utilizó el aforismo clásico: Mens sana in corpore sano. En el caso de España, la Contrarreforma utilizó la educación con el propósito deconstruir y solidificar un Estado católico. Las didácticas utilizadas, caracterizadas por el sentido de la eutrapelia y la emulación, fueron dispositivos que actuaron en el modelamiento de la docilidad corporal y del caballero cristiano. De este modo aparecieron diferentes usos sociales de la corporalidad en la educación, la formación militar, la recreación, el trabajo y la vida religiosa de la gente. De ahí surgió una ...