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Symboles du Moyen Âge - Animaux, végétaux, couleurs, objets

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Le bestiaire du Roman de Renart, celui des cinq sens et des sept péchés capitaux, la composition des ménageries princières, la vision des couleurs au XIIIe siècle, les mutations du vert au XIVe, la naissance du noir et blanc au XVe, les usages médiévaux du gant et du sceau, l'histoire symbolique des arbres et du bois, l'histoire culturelle de la pomme : l'ouvrage de Michel Pastoureau conduit le lecteur sur des terrains variés.

Tout au long de ce parcours, l'auteur souligne avec force combien l'histoire symbolique des animaux et des végétaux, des couleurs et des images, des signes et des songes, loin de s'opposer à l'histoire sociale, économique, politique ou religieuse, en constitue une des composantes essentielles.
Pour l'historien, le symbole et l'imaginaire font partie de la réalité et doivent être étudiés comme des objets d'histoire à part entière.

Michel Pastoureau signe ici l'un de ses ouvrages les plus complets, synthétisant près de cinquante années de recherches en histoire des mentalités médiévales.

368 pages, Paperback

Published November 6, 2025

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About the author

Michel Pastoureau

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Pastoureau was born in Paris on 17 June 1947. He studied at the École Nationale des Chartes, a college for prospective archivists and librarians. After writing his 1972 thesis about heraldic bestiaries in the Middle Ages, he worked in the coins, medals and antiquities department of the French National Library until 1982.
Since 1983 he has held the Chair of History of Western Symbolism (Chaire d'histoire de la symbolique occidentale) and is a director of studies at the Sorbonne's École pratique des hautes études. He is an academician of the Académie internationale d'héraldique (International Academy of Heraldry) and vice-president of the Société française d'héraldique (French Heraldry Society). When he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 1996, he was described as an eminent scholar who has made a radical contribution to several disciplines.
Professor Pastoureau has published widely, including work on the history of colours, animals, symbols, and the Knights of the Round Table. He has also written on emblems and heraldry, as well as sigillography and numismatics.

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