Abrégé de l'histoire du moyen âge en dialogues, à l'usage de la jeunesse
Abrégé de l'histoire du moyen âge en dialogues is a French-language medieval history written as dialogues by François-Louis Monney, published in 1828 for young readers. The single picture is an engraved-style line drawing of a crowned, enthroned king holding a circular shield with a cross-and-letter emblem, with a Latin inscription below. A designer could take its stiff, frontal heraldic pose and its patterned robe and lettered roundel as a model for formal medieval portraiture.
