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Scenting salvation : ancient Christianity and the olfactory imagination /

This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first - seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing de...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Collection:Transformation of the classical heritage ; 42.
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The olfactory context : smelling the early Christian world
  • The Christian body : ritually fashioned experience
  • Olfaction and Christian knowing
  • Redeeming scents : ascetic models
  • Sanctity and stench
  • Resurrection, sensation, and knowledge.