Although the text remains unedited in Greek, Florence de Montleau has published a French translation of Theodore Stoudite's first hook of Catecheseis, based on the transcription of a single Greek manuscript found in the late Julien Leroy's papers. Her work is most useful, and her translation is on the whole accurate and reliable. The book provides a vivid picture of the beginnings of Stoudite monasticism. The translator's notes rightly focus on Theodore's spirituality, but a historical commentary of this important source is now needed.