The Book of the Knight of the Tower

The Livre pour l'enseignement de ses filles 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.

He takes a strong moral stance against the behavior of his peers and warns his daughters about the dangers of vanity.

The German Der Ritter vom Turm was the work of Marquard von Stain, a member of the Swabian nobility.

He himself had two daughters, Elsa and Jakobea, for whose benefit he claims to have translated the French text.

Another English translation older than Caxton's survives in manuscript; British Library, Harley no.