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CONTENTS
1 Cover
4 1 Our unique sense of smell Is science always objective? A sense of danger, emotions and delight Notes
5 2 A pervasive stench The foul air of medieval towns Urban cesspits The smell of profit Pollutant trades Countryside smells Notes
6 3 Joyous matter A scholarly culture of scatology Aromatic blazons Humour in the conte The Way to Succeed Odorous wind Notes
7 4 Scent of a woman Demonizing the smell of women When ladies did not smell of roses At arm’s length Guilty women A breath of eroticism The gutter press A literary stink Death and the old woman Demonic pleasure Notes
8 5 The Devil’s breath Venomous vapours Plague-ridden towns Perfume as armour Perfumed rituals Rue, vinegar and tobacco Pomanders Notes
9 6 Musky scents Fountains of youth Ambergris, musk and civet The perfumed glove trade The eroticism of leather Nothing new under the Sun King? Drawing death’s sting The great animal slaughter Notes
10 7 Civilizing floral essences The perfume revolution Luxuriating in baths of scent Sensual faces Bodily hair care The scent of powder The emperor’s perfumer Notes
11 Conclusion
12 Sources and bibliography A note on quotations Principal manuscript sources Primary sources Select bibliography
13 Index
List of Figures
1 Figure 1 Isaac van Ostade, Village fair, with a church (detail), 1643.
2 Figure 2 Isaac van Ostade, Village fair, with a church, 1643.
3 Figure 3 Isaac van Ostade, Peasants outside a farmhouse butchering pork, 1641.
4 Figure 4 Pieter Bruegel the elder, Haberdasher despoiled by monkeys, 1562.
5 Figure 5 The five senses and for the first, smell. Collection of figures from the Jean Mè…
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