The sense of smell in the Middle Ages : a source of certainty / Katelynn Robinson

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1 The anatomy and physiology of olfaction -- 1 "A smell is always a 'half-breed'": Greek and Arabic discussions of smell -- Greek discussions of the sense of smell -- Arabic anatomy and physiology of smell -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Odor is a fumous evaporation: The medieval anatomy and physiology of smell -- Twelfth-century anatomy and physiology -- Thirteenth-century anatomy and physiology -- The anatomy and physiology of smell after the thirteenth century -- Olfactory anatomy and physiology outside universities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 2 The powers of odors -- 3 Aromaticity strengthens the spirits: Physical powers of odors in scholastic texts -- The qualities of medicines -- Odors in diagnosis -- Good and bad odors -- Odors, the soul, and the spirits -- Odors in medical treatment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Beware fetid air: Scholastic powers of odor in the popular sphere -- Odor and urban cleanliness -- Odor and pestilence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 3 The spiritual sense of smell -- 5 The smell of my son: The sense of smell in theology to c. 1200 -- Spiritual odors -- The spiritual nose -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 The sense of smell of discretion: Medically aware olfactory theology in the later Middle Ages -- Medically aware olfactory theology in preaching texts -- Vernacular examples of late medieval spiritual smell -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Conclusion: Certain odors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.