Smell Beyond Stench
- William Tullett, a history professor at Anglia Ruskin University, thinks modern media may have exaggerated the stench of past centuries.
- Our obsession with stench may be rooted in some contorted form of xenophobia.
- Recent global research suggests that the current literature on smell in history is not only too simplistic but also too Eurocentric.
- While particular smells demarcated certain social standings in pre-revolutionary France, the same standards did not apply to other countries.
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