Mirrors for princes or mirrors of princes (Latin: specula principum) was a literary genre of didactic political writings throughout the Middle Ages and...

of a realistic instruction guide for new princes. As a remarkable general theme, The Prince appears to take it for granted that immoral acts are justified...

to the genre of advice literature addressed to rulers known as "mirrors for princes", but also breaks from that genre by offering advice to courtiers...

which is in a tradition of Persian-Islamic writing known as the "Mirrors for Princes". Written in Persian and composed in the eleventh century, the Siyasatnameh...

نامه, Naṣīḥat-nāme) were a type of guidance letter for Ottoman sultans, similar to mirrors for princes. They draw on a variety of historical and religious...

Education of Cyrus. Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre mirrors for princes. In turn, the Cyropaedia strongly influenced the...

His God, and the Sumerian Man and His God. The literary genre of mirrors for princes, which has a long history in Islamic and Western Renaissance literature...

also Olivelle 2006, pp. 26–31 For this reason, Ramsay Wood considers it an early precursor of the mirrors for princes genre. Ryder 1925, Translator's...

with the use of his fame and authority, especially in the genre of Mirrors for Princes, are either deliberate forgeries fabricated with different purposes...

as well as in Tariq Ali's "The Stone Woman". Persian Literature Mirrors for princes C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, (Columbia University Press,...