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Yellow. The History of Color – Pastoureau Michel – New Literary Review – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-4448-3055-0

Yellow. The History of Color
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This book is part of a larger project by medieval historian Michel Pastoureau—reconstructing the cultural history of color in Western European societies, from Antiquity to the present day. This volume is devoted to yellow, a color that is little present in everyday life in modern Europe and is poorly represented in official symbols. However, this was not always the case. People of the past viewed it as a sacred color—the color of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. The Greeks and Romans devoted a special place to it in religious rites, while the Celts and Germans associated it with wealth and immortality. Yellow's status declined during the Middle Ages. On the one hand, it became the color of bitter bile and demonic sulfur—a sign of lies, avarice, and sometimes even illness and madness. At the same time, there is also a good yellow: gold, honey, and ripe ears of grain—a sign of power, joy, and abundance. This book explores these and other semantic metamorphoses of yellow.
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