Scenting salvation : ancient Christianity and the olfactory imagination / Susan Ashbrook Harvey.
- Harvey, Susan Ashbrook
- Date:
- [2006], ©2006
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.
Physical description
xviii, 421 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-388) and indexes.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows’ Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Transformation of the classical heritage]) Mode of access: Intranet.