Editing Joanna of Castile (section)

===Education===
Joanna was educated and formally trained for a significant marriage that, as a royal family alliance, would extend the kingdom's power and security as well as its influence and peaceful relations with other ruling powers. As an ''[[Infanta]]'' (princess), she was not expected to be heiress to the throne of either Castile or Aragon, although through deaths she later inherited both thrones.<ref name="Gelardi">{{cite book |last=Gelardi |first=Julia P. |title=In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory |date=2009 |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin}}</ref>

Joanna's academic education consisted of canon and civil law, genealogy and heraldry, grammar, history, languages, mathematics, philosophy, reading, spelling and writing.{{r|Gelardi|page=61}} Among the authors of classical literature she read were the Christian poets [[Juvencus]] and [[Prudentius]], Church fathers Saint [[Ambrose]], Saint [[Augustine]], Saint [[Pope Gregory I|Gregory]], and Saint [[Jerome]], and the Roman statesman [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]].{{r|Gelardi|page=61}}

In the Castilian court Joanna's main tutors were the [[Dominican Order|Dominican priest]] Andrés de Miranda; educator [[Beatriz Galindo]], who was a member of the queen's court; and her mother, the queen. Joanna's royal education included court etiquette, dancing, drawing, [[Equestrianism|equestrian]] skills, music, and the needle arts of embroidery, needlepoint, and sewing.{{r|Gelardi|page=61}} She studied the [[Iberian Romance languages]] of [[Spanish language|Castilian]], [[Leonese language|Leonese]], [[Galician-Portuguese]] and [[Catalan language|Catalan]], and became fluent in French and Latin. She learned outdoor pursuits such as hawking and hunting. She was skilled at dancing and music; she played the [[clavichord]], the guitar, and the [[monochord]].