An absolute success in bookshops during the sixteenth century, Martial d’Auvergne’s Arrêts d’Amours saw thirty-one editions printed between 1500 and 1597. Far from being homogenous, this production shows a great deal of typographical and textual variance with each successive publication. Printer-booksellers actually appropriated the work and, integrating it into their editorial politics, adapted it to their own editorial context and, in turn, to their public. By analyzing the editorial discourse of Arrêts d’Amours’ first three editorial periods, this article intends to highlight, sometimes in contemporaneous periods, the tensions existing around this work and its orientation toward different reading publics, at times large and “mainstream,” at others more limited and specialized.

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• Lannier, H., (2025), "Stratégies éditoriales dans les éditions des Arrêts d’Amours de Martial d’Auvergne publiées au XVIe siècle : quand l’imprimeur-libraire choisit son public", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Lannier, Hélène. "Stratégies éditoriales dans les éditions des Arrêts d’Amours de Martial d’Auvergne publiées au XVIe siècle : quand l’imprimeur-libraire choisit son public." Renaissance and Reformation 42 (1): 2019. 163-188. DOI: 10.7202/1064523ar. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.