“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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