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- Page 11 and 12: INTRODUCTION Pierre Boaistuau was a
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- Page 47 and 48: other cases. For instance, Robert K
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publication of six popular works an
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made possible not only due to Boais
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A final note should be made about B
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of Navarre was not only a generous
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CHAPTER 2 Pierre Boaistuau and sixt
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invention by 1450, when he began th
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Part two will contextualise Boaistu
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The total number of Boaistuau’s e
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career distinctive compared to that
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2.1.2. Histoires prodigieuses Full
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2.1.3. Histoires tragiques Full tit
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2.1.4. L’Histoire de Chelidonius
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followed by another three in 1559,
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Although Histoires des amans fortun
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the translation of The City of God;
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Latin edition of Le Théâtre (Thea
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Paré, who made extensive use of Bo
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of Histoires prodigieuses which wer
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can be identified with - but is not
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Italian humanism and the Italian Re
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important as the major cities of No
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During the second half of the fifte
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Fig. 4: The first page of Boaistuau
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proliferation of natural philosophy
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shown in Chapter Three, Boaistuau d
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where books were rarer, literacy ha
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a much broader meaning. 323 Althoug
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vulgarization’. 330 In fact, what
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The centralized character of French
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foreign elements into their art. In
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was another catalyst in the transfo
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Fig. 10: Title page of Histoires pr
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The rise of the vernacular in Franc
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writers began to write and publish
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Considering the number of editions,
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ensured a wide readership. 374 Thes
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appealed to diverse groups of reade
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were not only collections of easy-t
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persons variously responded in diff
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sources and classical languages thr
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not clearly defined but which prove
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penalisation of Boaistuau, but this
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This retained a well-defined struct
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illustre princesse madame Marguerit
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were Bonaventure des Périers and B
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generations. For this reason he urg
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aueuglante c’est l’amour, et la
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certainly written with entertainmen
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Andrew Pettegree has noted, this fl
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d’illustration rhétorique et de
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a model which combined, for the fir
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contemporary historian as proof; 48
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Consequently, he used the same trag
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‘Boaistuau tire d’un drame de l
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human condition which makes them co
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pain and suffering. As the title re
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etween the extremes of sin and salv
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Deschamps also appeared in the text
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Another feature indicative of Le Th
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[Ils] sont confitz en telle ignoran
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ordonnoit aussi’. 548 The Breton
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ne semblent pas hommes, mais monste
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celuy qui estoit hier riche, est au
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was a work set in a different conte
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Innocent III’s De miseria humanae
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Trismegistus, probably taken from D
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qui n’esmerveillera de la memoire
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Here lies the essence of the morali
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CHAPTER 4 Religion, political theor
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4.1. Political theory and L’Histo
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Boaistuau noted in the title. Henry
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For Boaistuau, monarchy was the ide
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The question whether the tenet of a
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example of Clément Marot and his g
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Carolingians and thence to the Cape
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war, revolt, political and social u
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in France, Guillaume Budé’s Inst
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A capable monarch should also be a
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must contain his arrogance, and not
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y Erasmus and Budé, keeping a dist
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works which exalted the military vi
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teeth), Man was born weak and defen
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lended the classical and Christian
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actively endorsing the doctrine dur
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lisant tu y trouves moins d’appro
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century France, the exposition of s
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The sixteenth century was in a sens
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History was a frequently appearing
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Protestant cause. 735 As Alexandra
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Historia Remensis ecclesiae on the
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(1563) was a martyrology in memory
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to their apostolic work of spreadin
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discipline could lead the kingdom t
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the early centuries of Christianity
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part of the work. 774 Boaistuau was
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employed many Biblical passages to
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claiming that she had children with
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qui le persecutent’. 802 By stres
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In order to better understand the t
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In addition to the non-existence of
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appropriate than the term ‘scienc
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characterised by the belief in revi
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the life of well-established theori
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understanding - and therefore shoul
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contained animals mentioned by clas
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development of natural philosophy e
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and knowledge organisation. However
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the Fugger family and seventeenth-c
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occurrence and symbolisms. Personal
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work, which Boaistuau deemed to be
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and widely-read books at the time.
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more rare than other events of its
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mystical texts of late antiquity (s
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antiquity and also ‘choses qui ne
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not just vehicles for the transmiss
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amethyst (‘Amatiste’), turquois
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Boaistuau’s attempt to decipher t
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society, where human society was eq
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had both male and female sex and co
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chien engendré d’vne Dogue et d
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1475, and two girls joined together
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part of the deliberate diversity of
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Fig. 20: A hairy girl, covered in f
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5.5. Histoires prodigieuses as a bo
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Chapter Eleven contained accounts o
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zealously repent and amend ‘least
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history. Violent winds, storms, and
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death of princes. For example, when
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Such descriptions stressed the marv
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At this point, Boaistuau diverged f
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CONCLUSION Pierre Boaistuau’s wri
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catholique. The examination of the
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APPENDIX A TABLES OF EDITIONS OF PI
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1571 Paris Jean Ruelle French (16º
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1663 London Sam. Ferris English (8
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1576 Paris Charles Macé French (8
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Maint Prince vit et maint Prince a
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Tu nous fis voir, poly, maint Amant
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Viennent sur les fleurs colliger Ta
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Ou Mort, ou Vie. - From Histoires p
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Celuy certes, serenouuelle Vne autr
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De la mort, du tombeau, de l’oubl
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BIBLIOGRAPHY PRIMARY SOURCES Boaist
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Armutseligkeit deß Menschen, durch
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animaulx estranges, avec le naturel
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Barnes-Svarney, P. L., Svarney, T.
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Bontemps, C. et al. (eds), Le Princ
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Cameron, K., Greengrass, M., Robert
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Chrisman, M. U., Lay Culture and Le
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D’ Hozier, L.-P., Armorial géné
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Delumeau, J., La Peur en Occident:
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Ferngren, G. B. (ed.), Science and
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Gandillac, M. de, et al. (eds), La
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Greenblatt, S., Renaissance self-fa
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Houston, R. A., Literacy in Early M
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Killeen, K., Forshaw, P. J. (eds),
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Le Robert (direction A. Rey), Dicti
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Marshall, P. H., The Theatre of the
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Morford, M. P. O., Stoics and Neost
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Parsons, J., The Church in the Repu
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