Katelynn Robinson completed her PhD at the University of Missouri. Her current research focuses on the importance of the sense of smell in medieval culture.

"Katelynn Robinson contributes to the growing discourse on smell by centering her work on medieval olfactory theory. Her book examines the explanations medieval writers gave for why and how smell acted as they believed it acted. Her work is, in general, in the mode of the history of ideas, with an emphasis on scholastic and medical conceptions of olfaction." - Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Why Odor?Part 1 - The Anatomy and Physiology of OlfactionChapter 1: "A smell is always a ‘half-breed’": Greek and Arabic Discussions of SmellChapter 2: Odor is a Fumous Evaporation: The Medieval Anatomy and Physiology of SmellPart 2 - The Powers of OdorsChapter 3: Aromaticity Strengthens the Spirits: Physical Powers of Odors in Scholastic TextsChapter 4: Beware Fetid Air: Scholastic Powers of Odor in the Popular SpherePart 3 - The Spiritual Sense of SmellChapter 5: The Smell of My Son: The Sense of Smell in Theology to c. 1200Chapter 6: The Sense of Smell of Discretion: Medically-Aware Olfactory Theology in the Later Middle AgesConclusion: Certain OdorsIndex

Katelynn Robinson completed her PhD at the University of Missouri. Her current research focuses on the importance of the sense of smell in medieval culture.

"Katelynn Robinson contributes to the growing discourse on smell by centering her work on medieval olfactory theory. Her book examines the explanations medieval writers gave for why and how smell acted as they believed it acted. Her work is, in general, in the mode of the history of ideas, with an emphasis on scholastic and medical conceptions of olfaction." - Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Why Odor?Part 1 - The Anatomy and Physiology of OlfactionChapter 1: "A smell is always a ‘half-breed’": Greek and Arabic Discussions of SmellChapter 2: Odor is a Fumous Evaporation: The Medieval Anatomy and Physiology of SmellPart 2 - The Powers of OdorsChapter 3: Aromaticity Strengthens the Spirits: Physical Powers of Odors in Scholastic TextsChapter 4: Beware Fetid Air: Scholastic Powers of Odor in the Popular SpherePart 3 - The Spiritual Sense of SmellChapter 5: The Smell of My Son: The Sense of Smell in Theology to c. 1200Chapter 6: The Sense of Smell of Discretion: Medically-Aware Olfactory Theology in the Later Middle AgesConclusion: Certain OdorsIndex