Faculty of History

Reflections on the Five Senses in Medieval Europe

John Merrington

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Reading List

R. Newhauser (ed), A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages (London, 2018)
C.M. Woolgar, The Senses in Late Medieval England (New Haven, CT., 2006)
S.A. Harvey, Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination (Berkeley, CA., 2006)
C. Nordenfalk, ‘The Five Senses in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 48 (1985), pp. 1-22 (available on JSTOR)

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