Michel Pastoureau

Michel Pastoureau is a historian, medievalist French , a specialist in symbolic colors, emblems, and heraldry. He was born June 17 1947 in Paris.

Michel Pastoureau is the cousin of Claude Levi-Strauss and the son of Henry Pastoureau , close to the surrealists; paleographer archivist , his thesis of the Ecole des Chartes , defended in 1972 , focuses on the bestiary heraldry of the Middle Ages. The subject is considered to be lackluster: heraldry was then considered an archaic discipline, and the animals for a childish subject of no interest to historians.

He is historian and director of studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes ^(4th section), where he has held since 1983 the chair of the history of Western symbolism. He was elected April 28, 2006 French correspondent of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres. He is a member of the International Academy of Heraldry and president of the French Society of Heraldic and Sigillography.

He has published some forty books, some translated into several languages, dedicated to the history of colors, animals and symbols. His early work focused on the history of the emblems and related fields: heraldry , Sigillography and numismatics.

On 3 November 2010 , he received the Prix Mdicis trial for his book The Color of memories ^Works

Book Study

• A symbolic history of the Middle Ages in the West, Threshold, The library collection of the XXI ^century, Paris, 2004, ( ISBN 2020136112 ).
• Treaty of heraldry, Great manuals Picard, 1979, republished in 1993, 1997, 2003 (revised and supplemented by the work of area published from 1979 to 1992).
• Dictionary colors of our time, Bonneton, Paris, 1992. ( ISBN 2862532436 )
• Figures of heraldry, Discovery Gallimard, 1996. ( ISBN 2070533654 )
• Blue. History of a Color, Editions du Seuil , 2002. pocket version ( ISBN 2020869918 ), larger version ( ISBN 2020204754 )
• Animals famous Bonneton, 2001. ( ISBN 2-86253-281-9 )
• The Devil's Cloth, a history of stripes and striped fabrics, Editions du Seuil, Collection Point Tests, Paris, 1991. ( ISBN 2020611988 )
• The Emblems of France, Bonneton editions, Paris, 1998.
• The Little Book of Color with Dominique Simonnet, Panama Editions, 2005. ( ISBN 2755700343 )
• The Ermine and Vert, studies of medieval heraldry, the Golden Leopard, Paris, 1982, ( ISBN 2863770179 ).
• The Bible and the saints with Gaston Duchet-Suchaux Edition Flammarion (Paris), Collection The art reference, 2006. ( ISBN 2080115987 )
• The Bear. Story of a fallen king, Threshold, The library collection of the XXI ^century, Paris, 2007. ( ISBN 202021542X ) National Book Award medieval Provins Heritage
• Black: History of a Color, 2008
• Pig. Story of a cousin unloved, Gallimard, collection Discoveries (No. 544), 2009, 160 p ( ISBN 2070360385 )
• The Art of Heraldry in the Middle Ages, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2009, 240 p. ( ISBN 978-2-02-098984-8 ).
• The colors of our memories, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2010, 257 p. ( ISBN 978-2-02-096687-0 )

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Preface

• Annie Mollard-Desfour , Le Bleu (with a preface by Michel Pastoureau), CNRS Editions, coll. "Dictionaries CNRS, 1998 (New Edition 2004), 274 p. ( ISBN 2271062284 )

Articles

Michel Pastoureau also wrote a number of articles devoted to color in publications such as Scientific American and in academic publications

References

Notes

Related articles

• Medievalist

External Links

• Presentation of Blue on Radio-Canada
• Series of interviews with Dominique Simmonet on color
• The red is the fire and blood, love and hell, interview by Dominique Michel Pastoureau Simmonet
• Shepherd: the black, a symbol (interview on the website of the magazine Le Point)
• "The pig is still guilty," great interview with Michel Pastoureau (on the literary website of the "Nouvel Observateur)

• Portal Middle Age

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