Smelling Disease and Death in the Antwerp Church of Our Lady, c. 1450-1559
Early modern societies were pervaded by smells and odours, but few traces have survived that offer a glimpse of the olfactory experience. This essay reconstructs this lost early modern ‘smellscape’, focusing on the smell of disease and death in the late medieval Antwerp Church of Our Lady (c. 1450-...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Journals
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Early Modern Low Countries |
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| Online Access: | https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/10006 |