Admonitions

The Admonitions (Hungarian: Intelmek; Latin: Libellus de institutione morum) is a mirror for princes—a literary work summarizing the principles of government—completed in the 1010s or 1020s for King Stephen I of Hungary's son and heir, Emeric.[1][2][3] About a century later, Bishop Hartvik claimed that Stephen I himself wrote the small book.[1] Modern scholarship has concluded that a foreign cleric who was proficient in rhymed Latin prose compiled the text.[1] The cleric has been associated with a Saxon monk, Thangmar;[3] with the Venetian Bishop Gerard of Csanád; and with Archbishop Astrik of Esztergom.[1]

For the punishment in Scots law and Reformed churches, see Admonition.
First page of the work

References
  1. Nemerkényi 2004, p. 231.
  2. Curta 2010, p. 484.
  3. Niessen 2015, p. 87.

Sources
  • Curta, Florin (2010). "King Stephen and the Conversion of Hungary (1000)". In Curta, Florin; Holt, Andrew (eds.). Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History, Volume 2. ABC-Clio. pp. 483–485. ISBN 978-1-4408-4599-4.
  • Nemerkényi, Előd (2004). "The Religious Ruler in the Admonitions of King Saint Stephen of Hungary". In Al-Azmeh, Aziz; Bak, János M. (eds.). Monotheistic Kingship: The Medieval Variants. Central European University. pp. 231–247. ISBN 963-7326-05-7.
  • Niessen, James P. (2015). "Catholic monasticism, orders, and societies in Hungary: Centuries of expansion, disaster and revival". In Angeli Murzaku, Ines (ed.). Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics. Central European University. pp. 231–247. ISBN 978-0-415-81959-6.


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