Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination

Susan Ashbrook Harvey

442 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
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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, ...

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