“…But mirror-like texts were found in the ancient Near East, in the Antiquity (Kaplan, 2012), as well as in medieval times, in the renaissance and up to around 1700. Geographically, Asian, Arabian (Marlow, 2013;Van Gelder, 2001), as well as West-European examples have been found (Blum, 1981;Léglu, 2011). Content-wise, the genre unfolds a broad spectrum from relatively simple lists of moral virtues to more complex political philosophical reflections on the state and issues like the relationship between politics and Christianity and between the prince and his subjects.…”