Carola Föller, Königskinder: Erziehung am Hof Ludwigs IX. des Heiligen von Frankreich. Vienna, Cologne, and Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2018. Pp. 252.

The book under review is fundamentally a close reading of a few texts that throw some light on the aspirations of Louis IX with regard to the education of his children. Although other texts receive a modest amount of attention, and the author alludes to the potential relevance of other authors’ writings, the principal focus is on a limited body of works. These are the writings of Vincent of Beauvais, Pierre de Fontaines’s