A Sensory History Manifesto is a brief and timely meditation on the state of the field. It invites
historians who are unfamiliar with sensory history to adopt some of its insights and practices …

This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the
14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors …

In this introductory chapter Katajala-Peltomaa & Toivo analyse historiographical changes
from the history of popular religion to the history of religion as lived. They lay out the …

How many senses are there, really? Do the senses have a history? What makes smell'the
affective sense'par excellence? Are the senses so many independent channels, or do they …

Pine is a familiar scent in domestic cleaning products, but how often do we relate it to its
origins as an odour emanating from a tree? This article takes a sensory history approach to …

The 'scene of experience'is a tool for analysing situations in which experiences emerge at
specific moments of time, space and place. We have developed the concept, which has …

When the 3rd global plague pandemic reached Sydney in 1900, uncertainty regarding the
transmission of disease resulted in disagreement about how to contain the threat …

This short thought piece focuses on the novel contributions the authors of Lived Nation make
to the study of the nation, and to the new history of experience. It discusses the …

The article uses narratology as a tool to examine the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in
Finland and the area of Finnmark, Northern Norway, to analyse how experience as a …

This article pleads for a history of emotional experiences that allows for the understanding of
complex emotional phenomena in the past that are not easily accommodated within the …