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The Devil's ClothTo 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...Read More
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New York Times, December 23, 2011
...and divine realms. In THE BEAR: History of a Fallen King (Belknap/Harvard University, $29.95), the French historian Michel Pastoureau makes a similar claim for another animal. He writes that as far back as the Upper Paleolithic era, some 30,000 years...
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, February 5, 2012
...black is not as popular as blue nor as disliked as yellow. That is the opinion of historian Michel Pastoureau whose book Black: The History of a Color charts the use of black by artists across the world. Speaking recently to ARTnews, one of the most...
Legal History Blog, September 18, 2011
...New Republic. TNR also offers reviews of The Bear: History of a Fallen King (Harvard/Belknap), by French medievalist Michel Pastoureau (an "odd study," "permeate[d]" with "bitterness" on behalf of the dethroned beast), and Alcibiades (Casement...
