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Yellow. History of color

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French historian Michel Pastoureau continues his large-scale project dedicated to the history of color in Western European societies from Ancient Rome to the present day. The NLO publishing house has already published the books Blue, Black, Red, and Green, as well as The Devil's Matter. The History of Stripes and Striped Fabrics.

The new book is dedicated to yellow, which is rarely present in the everyday life of modern Europe and is poorly represented in official symbols. However, this was not always the case. People of the past saw it as a sacred color - the color of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. The Greeks and Romans gave it a special place in religious rites, and the Celts and Germans associated it with wealth and immortality.

The status of yellow was lowered in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, it became the color of bitter bile and demonic sulfur - a sign of lies, stinginess, sometimes even illness and madness. At the same time, there is also good yellow: gold, honey and ripe ears of corn - a sign of power, joy, abundance. The book is dedicated to these and other semantic metamorphoses of yellow. Michel Pastoureau is a medievalist historian, professor at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
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