Fictions of Advice JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians Gardam’s prose is witty and

Gardam’s prose is witty and precise

Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do—or do not—comply with international law

Exploring the links between political activism

his rhetoric and chancery

Fictions of Advice JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians Gardam’s prose is witty andFictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses toas well as attempts to managethe risks implicit in advising a king. Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster