Michel Pastoureau

About The Author

Michel Pastoreau is a leading authority on medieval iconography. He is the director of studies at the Sorbonne's Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes where he has served since 1983 as a professor of the history of Western symbols. He is the author of The Devil's Stripe and Blue: The History of a Color (Princeton University Press.)

Books by Michel Pastoureau

The Devil's Cloth

A History of Stripes

By Michel Pastoureau
Translated by Jody Gladding
To stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it.
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