Scenting salvation ancient Christianity and the olfactory imagination / [electronic resource] :
Susan Ashbrook Harvey.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- xviii, 421 p. ; 24 cm.
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature Transformation of the classical heritage ; 42 .
- ACLS Fellows’ publications. Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature Transformation of the classical heritage ; 42. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-388) and indexes.
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.