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“So the satiated man hungers, the drunken thirsts” The Topos of Spiritual Nutrition within High Medieval Thought James Smith Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, UWA
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The slide show to accompany my paper at the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group annual symposium, June 11 2010.
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“So the satiated man hungers, the drunken thirsts”
The Topos of Spiritual Nutrition within High Medieval Thought
James SmithCentre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, UWA
Petrus Comestor's 'Bible Historiale,' (12th c.) The Man with Dropsy and the Ox, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1372 illumination.
The Torment of Tantalus, as depicted in a late 14th century edition of Romance of the Rose, MS Douce 332, fol. 178v, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Images from Codex aureus Epternacensis (11th c.)Nuremburg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 156142
Christ leading the faithful to the waters of eternal lifeImage from MS Douce 313, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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