ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with an important work written in French near the end of the fourteenth century and translated into Middle English: Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry pour l'enseignement de ses filles, or The Book of the Knight of the Tower. We shall examine first how this work falls within the category of courtesy or conduct book and therefore into the genre of children's literature as well. Next, we shall investigate what we know of the author, the circumstances of composition, and the reception history of the work. Finally, following an overall view of its structure and content, we shall preview how the excerpts presented here deal with a pervasive theme of conduct books, the proper obedience of female to male, as well as the dangers posed to women by the flattering attentions of would-be courtly lovers.
