Les Enseignements de Théodore Paléologue

Overview & Synopsis

Les Enseignemens ou Ordenances pour un Siegneur qui a Guerres et Grans Gouvernemens a Faire, often referred to as Les enseignements, was a military manual by Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (1290-1338). Originally composed in Greek in 1326-27 while Theodore was in Constantinople, it exists now only in the medieval French translation of Jean de Vignay. This edition, in French text throughout, presents that surviving form of the Enseignements. This book, originally published in paperback in 1983 under the ISBN 978-0-900547-86-7, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.