39 historiennes et historiens remontent à la source de nos préjugés Les préjugés se définissent comme des opinions préconçues et mal fondées. La majorité d'entre eux stigmatisent des groupes humains : les peuples, les nations, les femmes, les gros, les roux, les riches, les pauvres, les artistes, les intellectuels... Ils expriment un sentiment de supériorité ou un complexe d'infériorité d'un groupe envers un autre. Rien ni personne n'est à l'abri de ces jugements, pas même les animaux, les couleurs, les aliments ou les arts. Dans cette Histoire des préjugés, les historiennes et les historiens sont remontés à la source de plus de cinquante préjugés pour en expliquer la genèse, le contexte historique et surtout la permanence à travers les âges. Une leçon d'histoire et un antidote à la haine.
Authors
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.
Gérard Noiriel is a French historian. He is one of the pioneers of immigration history in France. He has also focused on the history of the working class, as well as on interdisciplinary and epistemological questions in history. In this regard, he contributed to the development of socio-historical studies and was involved in founding the journal Genèses. He is a director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
