Righe. Una storia culturale

Мишель Пастуро — французский историк-медиевист, специалист про нумизматике, геральдике, сфрагистике, известный благодаря "Символической истории европейского Средневековья" и книгам об исторической символике некоторых цветов. "История полосок" не так подробна, как другие его работы. В книге содержател Leggi tutto

I was disappointed with this book. The problems as I see it: 1) It's too small to really provide the illustrations needed to buttress his argument. 2) While he has good, even believable ideas, he routinely failed to convince me in one section and then contradicted himself in the next, thus irritating Leggi tutto

A mildly interesting book, I find it fascinating how something as common place today as stripes was actually such a big deal in the past and how this colors our use without us even realizing it. I did feel however that even for a small book , it was rather light in content. He spends more time listing Leggi tutto

де людина зустрічається з хаосом, безладом, девіантністю, там вона вдається до смужок: вони позначають (як на шаликах у повій або на вбранні паяців), захищають (як ґрати чи, дуже зворушливо пише пастуро, піжама – адже смугаста піжамка саме й покликана берегти нас від нічних страхіть, хіба ні?), стру Leggi tutto

In the bibliography, he wrote that, “It is made up more of impressions and interrogations than compilations.” Translation: He pulled it out of his @ss rather than doing actual research.

What a fun little book! And I do mean little in both size and content, which is really all I think I could possibly want on the subject of striped fabric. But I learned some really fascinating cultural history of feudal Europe (and beyond) - just ask me about Carmelites, Saint Joseph and his pantalo Leggi tutto

This book provides new insight on a standard fabric pattern. The meaning of the stripes has changed through the ages. During the Medieval period stripes were used to mark sub-classes (prositutes, jesters, executioners)and was often seen to be associated with sin or the devil. The meaning of the stri Leggi tutto

This is the 2nd book by Pastoureau that I have read -- the first was the history of the color green. Pastoureau's scholarship is impeccable. Through studying textiles, insignia, and colors, he brings new light to history. This book is quite brief -- after all, stripes are a pretty narrow subject --