Susan Ashbrook Harvey: 2 books
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies
Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies. Focused on civilizations clustered mainly around the Mediterranean and covering the period between roughly 100 and 700 CE, scholars in this field have brought...
Scenting Salvation
Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
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, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing...