“So the satiated man hungers, the drunken thirsts” The Medieval Rhetorical Topos of Spiritual Nutrition
This article explores the representation of hunger and thirst as faculties within medieval spiritual allegory that existed at two forms. In their bodily form, hunger and thirst represented a feeling of lack indicating the need for sustenance. In their figurative moralised form these needs came to re...
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University of Western Australia
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/2697436/Smith-article.pdf |