Smells
Smells Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in human history and culture.In this…
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Smells
Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in human history and culture.In this major new book Robert Muchembled restores smell to its rightful place as one of our most important senses and examines the transformation of smells in the West from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century. We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells.
Having little choice but to see and smell faeces and urine on a daily basis, people showed little revulsion; until He shows that in earlier centuries, the air in towns and cities was often saturated with nauseating emissions and dangerous pollution.