by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 25, 2021 | Sensory story
Historian Dan Snow gets down and dirty the filthy cities of revolutionary Paris, medieval London, and industrial New York. No, not ancient, but interesting nonetheless! Episode 1: Medieval London Episode 2: Revolutionary Paris Episode 3: Industrial New York It’s hard...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 20, 2020 | Sensory story
As I’ve mentioned (or will mention at some point), I am creating a dataset of scent-related references from literature, mostly Roman, from circa 100 BCE to 100 CE. In Tusculan Disputations I came across the Cicero’s retelling of still-used anecdote of the sword of...
by Suzanne Whitby | May 1, 2020 | Sensory story
I’ve been reading Alain Corbin’s “The Foul and the fragrant: odour and the French social imagination”, a study into the smells of Paris and their perception. In his introduction, Corbin mentions that one of his inspirations was Jean-Noël Hallé...
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