Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination (Volume 42) by Harvey, Susan Ashbrook - 2006-06-06

UsedGood. Clean, great binding. Cover shows light wear from reading/handling. Dog-Eared Books is a small, women owned and operated business. Some of the pages have been dog-eared by the previous owner.

University of California Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in very good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. The dust jacket has been placed in protective mylar for preservation. Cover boards and spine in very good condition. Previous owner's notation made on back free end page. Gilt lettering on spine. The binding suffers minor loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Berkeley - Los Angeles - London: University of California Press, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xviii, 421pp., (i). Just a hint of a bump to upper corner of back board. Text clean. Binding sound. A tiny area to top-edges of pages where some glue from the binding process spilled over, though this does not effect turning the pages. Light wear to extremities of dust-jacket, with mild wear to remainder of jacket, too. Overall, a nice, clean, sound and attractive copy

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of California Press, 2006 8vo (23.5 cm), XVIII, 422 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first - seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing devotional piety, in which the bodily senses were utilized as crucial instruments of human-divine interaction. Rich olfactory practices developed as part of this shift, with lavish uses of incense, holy oils, and other sacred scents. At the same time, Christians showed profound interest in what smells could mean. How could the experience of smell be construed in revelatory terms? What specifically could it convey? How and what could be known through smell? Scenting Salvation argues that ancient Christians used olfactory experience for purposes of a distinctive religious epistemology:… Read More

University of California Press, 2006-06-07. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Univ of California Pr, 2006. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 421 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches.