Admonitions

For the punishment in Scots law and Reformed churches, see Admonition.

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]

First page of the work