Abstract
Some medieval prologues use rhetorical rules and traditions as material rather than as prescriptive advice. Augustine’s De doctrina christiana and Alain de Lille’s De planctu naturae demonstrate how such metarhetorical discourse may texture a prologue and open it up to investigation of the art of rhetoric and literary theory.
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