The ''Admonitions'' ( hu, Intelmek; la, Libellus de institutione morum) is a mirror for princesa literary work summarizing the principles of governmentcompleted in the 1010s or 1020s for King

Stephen I of Hungary Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen ( hu, Szent István király ; la, Sanctus Stephanus; sk, Štefan I. or Štefan Veľký; 975 – 15 August 1038), was the last Grand Prince of the Hungarians between 997 and 1000 or 1001, and the ...

's son and heir, Emeric. About a century later, Bishop Hartvik claimed that Stephen I himself wrote the small book. Modern scholarship has concluded that a foreign cleric who was proficient in rhymed Latin prose compiled the text. The cleric has been associated with a Saxon monk,

Thangmar Thangmar (Thankmar) (b. about the middle of the tenth century; d. probably at Hildesheim after 1022) was a German chronicler. Life His first appearance in history is as the head of the cathedral school at Hildesheim; at a later date he became dean ...

; with the Venetian Bishop Gerard of Csanád; and with Archbishop Astrik of Esztergom.

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