PIERRE BOAISTUAU - eTheses Repository - University of Birmingham

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1: Map of French Atlantic fishing ports 38
Figure 2: Map of French medieval universities 45
Figure 3: Elizabeth I: The Clopton Portrait (c. 1560) 56
Figure 4: First page of Boaistuau’s dedication to Elizabeth I in Histoires
prodigieuses 103
Figure 5: A monstrous child with four arms and four legs 103
Figure 6: Two maidens joined together at the forehead, from Histoires
prodigieuses (Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 105
Figure 7: The 1570 earthquake in Ferrara, from Histoires prodigieuses
(Paris, C. Macé, 1575) 105
Figure 8: Extract from the Introduction of Histoire des persecutions de
l’Eglise chrestienne et catholique (Paris, R. le Magnier, 1576) 119
Figure 9: First page of Boaistuau’s salutation of Histoires des amans
fortunez (Paris, V. Sertenas, 1558) 119
Figure 10: Title page of Histoires prodigieuses (Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 121
Figure 11: Title page of Le Théâtre du monde (Paris, J. Longis and R. le
Magnier, 1559) 121
Figure 12: Albrecht Dürer’s Rhinocerus (1515) 268
Figure 13: Sketch of Michaelangelo’s Adam (c. 1511) 268
Figure 14: A man washing his hands with melted lead, from Histoires
prodigieuses (Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 282
Figure 15: A man in search of precious stones, from Histoires prodigieuses
(Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 288
Figure 16: The Ravenna monster, from Histoires prodigieuses (Paris, V.
Sertenas, 1560) 295
Figure 17: A monstrous child with four arms and four legs, from Histoires
prodigieuses (Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 295
Figure 18: A man out of whose belly issued the body of another man, from
Histoires prodigieuses (Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 298
Figure 19: Two maidens joined together in one body, from Histoires
prodigieuses (Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 298
Figure 20: A hairy girl, from Histoires prodigieuses (Paris, V. Sertenas,
1560) 303
Figure 21: A boy half-human and half-dog, from Histoires prodigieuses
(Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 303
Figure 22: Depiction of a flood, from Histoires prodigieuses (Paris, V.
Sertenas, 1560) 308
Figure 23: Three suns and comets in the sky, from Histoires prodigieuses
(Paris, V. Sertenas, 1560) 312
Figure 24: The red comet, from Histoires prodigieuses (Paris, V. Sertenas,
1560) 312