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Honoré Bonet
d. 1409
A Benedictine writer from Provence, he is best known for L'Arbre des batailles, a late medieval work that explores war, law, and chivalry. His writing helped carry legal and moral debates about conflict far beyond his own century.
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L'art de chevalerie selon Vegece
by de Pisan Christine, Honoré Bonet, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Flavius Vegetius Renatus
About the author
Born in Provence around the mid-14th century, Honoré Bonet — also known as Honorat Bovet or Honoré Bouvet — was a Benedictine monk, writer, heraldist, and legal adviser. He studied at the University of Avignon and later served as a prior near Embrun while moving in the political and religious world of late medieval France.
His best-known book, L'Arbre des batailles, was written in the 1380s and became an influential discussion of war, justice, and chivalric conduct. Rather than simply praising knightly ideals, it asks practical and moral questions about how wars are fought and what rules should govern them.
Bonet also wrote on the troubles of France and the Great Schism, showing how closely his work was tied to the crises of his time. Sources differ slightly on his death date, but he is generally placed as dying around 1409 or 1410.