Michel Pastoureau

Michel Pastoureau is a historian and emeritus director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études de la Sorbonne in Paris. A renowned authority on the history of colors, symbols, and heraldry, he is the author of many books, including Blue, Black, Green, and Red (all Princeton). His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to...

¿Qué queda de los colores de nuestra infancia? ¿Qué recuerdos conservamos? ¿Un conejo de peluche azul, un vestido rojo, una bicicleta de color amarillo? ¿Eran realmente de ese color? ¿Qué colores asociamos a nuestro primer amor, a nuestra vida adulta? ¿Transforma la memoria los colores a su antojo? ¿Por qué? Para tratar de responder a estas preguntas, y a muchas otras, Michel Pastoureau nos propone un recorrido que abarca más del último...

The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East to Celtic Britain. The author, a historian considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by the advent of Christianity and continued to sink lower in the...