Reading scent in medieval England

我们通过感官来体验世界，气味唤起了个人和社区的强烈情感。我将气味作为一种社会和历史现象进行探究，询问中世纪英国人是如何理解气味的，并调查气味最早出现在英语中的含义，通过仔细阅读中世纪英语白话文来恢复气味失去的意义。回应中世纪气味的历史话语，我采用文学的方法来追踪从古典思想家到英国外行人的感官观念的传播。在这个感官知识的框架内，我进行了三个文学案例研究，考察了气味是如何在白话中被想象出来的，提供了一个关于经典文本的新的体现视角，并强调了被忽视的文本的文学和文化价值。我参与了现代遗产研究的创新，建立了一个关于气味如何扩大我们与中世纪过去的接触的跨学科立场

We experience the world through our senses, and smells evoke powerful emotions for individuals and communities.I interrogate smell as a social and historical phenomenon, asking how smell was understood in medieval Englandand investigating the meanings of scent first emerging in English, to recover the lost significance of scent throughclose readings of Middle English vernacular texts.Responding to historical discourse of medieval smell, I take a literary approach to track the transmission of ideasabout the senses from classical thinkers to English laypeople. Within this framework of sensory knowledge, Iundertake three literary case studies that examine how smell was imagined in the vernacular, provide a newembodied perspective on canonical texts, and highlight the literary and cultural value of overlooked texts.Engaging with innovations in modern heritage studies, I establish an interdisciplinary position on how smell canexpand our engagement with the medieval past