Chris,
I had the same reaction to The Devil's Cloth, and his book on
heraldry. Entertaining, yes, but not always thoroughly grounded in
the most recent historical research. Pastoreau's works are an okay
place to start a research project as long as you back it up with
other sources.
And the pictures are nice. :-)
Suzanne
On Nov 2, 2008, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Chris Laning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 1, 2008 9:04:26 PM CDT
To: Historical Costume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [h-cost] French titles - Mediaeval costume and textiles
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On Nov 1, 2008, at 3:40 AM, Viv Watkins wrote:
You might be interested in this book - although it covers a much
wider period it has a good mediaeval section.
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The French title is - Rayures: Une histoire des rayures et des
tissus rayes by Michel Pastoureau ISBN 2020236664. Publisher
Seuil (1995). It is out of print but Amazon has one copy available
in the USA at £15.26.
The translation is - The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and
Striped Fabric (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought
and Cultural Criticism) ISBN 0231123663 . Columbia University
Press (2001). Amazon has plenty of copies starting from £7.99.
Michel Pastoureau is a very entertaining writer, but tends to be a
bit.... how shall I say this.... flamboyant? about some of what he
says. I have a couple of his books, including _Blue: The History of
a Color_ and right at the very beginning it contains some passages
that appear to demonstrate that he either is not aware of, or is
deliberately ignoring, some of the significant research on the
cognitive history of color concepts (or so says the scholar who
gave it to me).
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