The symbolic history of the European Middle Ages

Michelle Pasturo (p. 1947), a medical historian, head of the Department of History of Western Symbols in a practical school of higher research (Paris), vice president of the French Society of Heraldics, stands at the origins of a relatively new scientific discipline-symbolic history. Archeology and semantics of color, the emergence of emblems and flags, trials over animals, the appearance and evolution of chess, mythology of flowers and trees, the bestiary fables and iconography of Judas, the influence of the knightly novel on society and the history of the bestseller - the beginning of the XIX century - the topics that he disassembled in this a book, the material for which was collected for three decades. In the "symbolic history of the European Middle Ages" prof. Pasturo summarizes his works on the history of medieval symbols, which brought him the fame and glory of the discoverer