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Chapter 4, The advisors, deals with the authors’ discursive strategies by focusing on two key processes within Mirrors: the authors’ construction and presentation of advice and the negotiation of their relation with the addressed ruler. The analysis of the first process tells us more about the way authors of Mirrors characterize the origin, authority, field of application and function of their advice. It also provides us with insights on the authors’ usage of sources, by revealing the strategies and methods that they adopt in weaving supporting material, such as narratives, into their Mirrors. The analysis of the second process deals with negotiations of power in the process of the authors’ self-representation and self-positioning. The analysis looks at how authors of Mirrors evoke notions of immediacy, performativity and rituality in order to embed their works in established advisory models that rest on discourses of utility (and harmfulness), naturalness, genealogy and gender.