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Admonitions of Saint Stephen
The Admonitions of Saint Stephen are a Latin mirror for princes addressed by Stephen I of Hungary to his son Emeric, probably written in the 1010s or 1020s. In ten short chapters they urge the heir to keep the Catholic faith, honour the clergy and nobles, and welcome foreign guests, famously stating that a kingdom of one language and one custom is weak. They are the oldest surviving work of Hungarian political thought.
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