Reading scent in medieval England

我们通过感官体验世界，而气味能唤起个人和群体的强烈情感。我将嗅觉作为一种社会和历史现象进行研究，询问嗅觉在中世纪英国是如何被理解的，并调查首次出现在英语中的气味的含义，通过仔细阅读中世纪英语方言文本来恢复气味失去的意义。为了回应中世纪气味的历史论述，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，研究了如何在白话中想象气味，为规范文本提供了一个新的体现视角，并强调了被忽视的文本的文学和文化价值。参与现代遗产研究的创新，我建立了一个跨学科的立场，研究气味如何扩大我们与中世纪历史的接触

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