PIERRE BOAISTUAU - eTheses Repository - University of Birmingham

EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS
In order to preserve the authenticity of early modern French language, any quotations
from primary sources will follow the spelling and punctuation of the original. I have
tried to stay faithful to original orthography; however to facilitate reading, sixteenthcentury
usage of ‘f’ for ‘s’ and ‘j’ for ‘i’ has been modernized. In addition, usage of
‘&’ has been replaced by ‘et’, and the German Eszett (ß) by ‘ss’.
In the multitude of editions of Pierre Boaistuau’s works, his name appeared in
alternate spellings, a selection of which are indicated in the relevant footnote. From
these variations, only the most commonly employed has been used. Also, personal
and place names will be anglicised unless otherwise stated. Besides work titles, only
Greek and Latin words are italicised.
Primary and secondary works cited in the footnotes will follow the writer name-work
title-place and year of publication format. In the case of Boaistuau’s works, the name
of publisher(s) has also been included. For reasons of space, these works will be cited
by their short title. Complete tables of the known editions of Boaistuau’s published
works have been included in the Appendices.
The forty-one chapters of Histoires prodigieuses are numbered erroneously as forty in
the first edition by Vincent Sertenas in 1560. To avoid confusion, this erroneous
numbering has been used throughout the main text.
Lastly, all Biblical quotations have been taken from King James Version (1611).