I'll second (or third) the opinion on The Devil's Cloth. Entertaining, a
good jumping-off place for further research, and occasionally there's an
outright gem in his quoted sources that makes up for the eight or nine
pages you just spent thinking "Is he high?"
Jen
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Suzanne wrote:
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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