Yellow: The History of a Color

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A BENEFICIAL COLOR
	The Ochers of the Paleolithic Period
	The Yellow Metal
	Mythologies of Gold
	Sun Worship
	Dyeing in Yellow
	Dressing in Yellow
	The Clodius Affair
	The Lessons of the Lexicon
	The Silence of the Bible and the Church Fathers
AN AMBIGUOUS COLOR
	The Absence of Yellow in Christian Worship
	Yellow in Heraldry
	An Ambivalent Symbolism
	The Prestige of Blond Hair
	Bile and Urine
	Envy, Lying, and Treachery
	The Robes of Jan Hus and of Judas
	The Origins of the Yellow Star?
AN UNPOPULAR COLOR
	The Yellow of Painters
	The Yellow of Scholars
	Yellow in Daily Life
	Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
	The East Comes into Fashion
	Discretion, Transgression, and Modernity
	On the Margin of Yellow: Orange
	On the Athletic Fields
	Yellow for the Present Day
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