Amazing and well-earned accomplishment! Bravo, Rachel! 👏

I didn't realize this was open access. Excellent! I'm going to use a couple excerpts in my World Religions class.

@adambursi.bsky.social Can you recommend a couple background works on the common theoretical approaches and aims in pre-modern sensory history? Thanks!

Meaning fragrance in Islamic Studies, or more generally?

Within IS, there is @nehavermani.bsky.social, Anya King, me and Christian Lange, and a few others.

Here are good starting points, with bibliography:

doi.org/10.1163/1570...

brill.com/display/titl...

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/1...

Ah, Herodotus and Thucydides make sense, although I think the Greeks constitute a different historiographic enterprise, which Hodgson seems to be alluding to in his shift of focus to Michelet and Ranke.

And I quite like Hodgson's explanation of what constitutes effective writing & scholarship.