Qui fait l'ange fait la bête: Odeurs et parfums en occident. Epigraphie Religion from which spring universes mixing

from which spring universes mixing reality and fantasy

figure majeure du naturalisme portugais encore méconnue en France

this book seeks to avoid the pitfall of a strictly chronological demonstration in order to convey the profound unity of his work

Neither Jesus

Qui fait l'ange fait la bête: Odeurs et parfums en occident. Epigraphie Religion from which spring universes mixingIf our culture relegated the sense of smell as animal, it has constantly and unknowingly "spoken about the nose" through our likes and dislikes, our sensitive memory and our spiritual or religious experiences. This essay questions what was at stake in the age old contempt for olfaction and then questions its contemporary rehabilitation: we reactivate its role in medicine, we reveal its unconscious influence on our choices and feelings, we meditate on