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The Book of the Knight of the Tower

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served as a tutorial for De la Tour Landry's daughters on proper behavior when visiting the royal court, which, the knight warns, is filled with smooth-talking courtiers who could potentially disgrace them and embarrass the family. The author was a widower, and concerned for his daughters' welfare.
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nobility. He himself had two daughters, Elsa and Jakobea, for whose benefit he claims to have translated the French text.
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He takes a strong moral stance against the behavior of his peers and warns his daughters about the dangers of
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in 1371, and which he continued writing at least until 1372. It was translated into English (as
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and completed, according to his colophon, on 1 June 1483, during the reign of
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Le livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry pour l'enseignement de ses filles
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Another English translation older than Caxton's survives in manuscript;
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Livre pour l'enseignement de ses filles du Chevalier de La Tour Landry
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Simon, Anne (1999). "Framing Lives: The Narratives of Behaviour in
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Early English Text Society, 1971, Introduction by Marguerite Offord
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no. 1764. The manuscript was written in the reign of
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was the work of Marquard von Stain, a member of the
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