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ZIERER, Adriana. Feeding the body and the soul in the middle ages: devouring and nourishing the Visio Tnugdali. Acta Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.41, e48175.  Epub 01-Out-2019. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v41i1.48175.

The purpose of this paper is to present the role of the food act in the images related to the work Visio Tnugdali, mainly the illuminated manuscript Getty Tondal (1475) in comparison to the Latin version by Marcus. These images are also compared with some woodcuts from the printed version in Germany, Ed. Speyer of the fifteenth century (De raptu animae Tundali et eius visione, 1483). The central theme of the narrative is the journey to beyond by a knight called Tundal, who undergoes a near-death experience and goes to the spaces of Purgatory, Hell and Paradise, accompanied by an angel, in order to make him aware of his sins. For this reason, he suffers during the journey some feathers, as well as, knows some delights of Paradise. The images and the narrative emphasize that punishment of humans is linked to the act of devouring, related to the education of humans for salvation. Humans suffer as if they were in a kitchen being cut, stuck, crumpled, melted, mass-transformed, and suffer again. The punishments are mainly related to the sins of lust and gluttony and could be suffered by clerics and laymen. The narrative also presents positive nutritional elements, for example, the host that the knight eats after his purification in the Beyond, represented on the front page of the Vision of Don Túngano (História del virtuoso cavaleiro Dõ Túngano, Toledo, 1526). Other positive food elements are related to Paradise, such as the tree of life and the source of living water, described in the Bible. Visual and mental food images related to kitchen space (referring to infernal places) and Biblical Eden are close to medieval everyday life, because the narrative sought to educate Christians for post-mortem salvation.

Palavras-chave : food; education; salvation; knight Tundal.

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