White: The History of a Color

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Foreword
Contents
Introduction
The Color of the Gods From Earliest Times to The Beginning of Christianity
	From Nature to Culture
	The Moon and the Sacred
	A False Image: White Greece
	Wool and Linen: Dressing in White
	The Lessons of the Lexicon
	White versus Black
The Color of Christ Fourth to Fourteenth Centuries
	Biblical White
	A Christian Color
	White versus Red
	Regarding the Lily: A White Floriary
	The Lamb, the Swan, and the Dove: A White Bestiary
	A Feminine Color
The Color of Kings Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
	The Birth of a Symbolic System
	White, First among the Colors
	Birth and Death in White
	The Color of Nobility
	The White of the Monarchy
	Ink and Paper
The Color of Modernity Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
	White and Black: No Longer Colors
	The White of Artists
	From Cleanliness to Health
	Dressing in White
	Lexicons and Symbols
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Credits