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The civilization of smells. XVI - beginning of XIX century

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Olfactory studies, or the anthropology of odors, is an important field in contemporary humanities scholarship, as this book, which focuses on the history of the sense of smell in modern Western Europe, proves. What bizarre, dangerous, and foul-smelling potions were used centuries ago to induce beauty? How did artists manage to convey fragrance and stench in painting? What immodest poems were dedicated to the intimate parts of the body by poets? How were sensual animal perfumes replaced by plant perfumes, and how did physicians try to defeat the plague with strong scents? The book by leading French cultural historian Robert Mushemblé, author of Orgasm and Essays on the History of the Devil, convincingly shows that the classification of odors depends largely on the cultural attitudes of different epochs and that olfactory perception is subject to the same transformation as aesthetic criteria in art.
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