Front page of the Judgment of Tudela Cathedral
Punishment of gluttony
The punishment of those who overindulge in food and drink is represented by two naked figures being given a fiery liquid to drink by two devils. Similarly, in another voussoir, two figures in a cauldron appear to drink the liquid that falls from two cups held by devils. This punishment is similarly described in the Muslim hadiths (texts that narrate the visitof Muhammad to hell and heaven) as the punishment for wine drinkers. In addition, B. Mariño quotationhas as literary parallels a 13th century account of the punishment of a nobleman in hell who was forced to drink embers from a cup, or the preaching of an English monk in the 14th century who threatens gluttons with a cup of fire and brimstone.
Gluttony is not a widely represented sin in the Gothic hells, as it is not a sin that affects society, unlike greed and lust, whose internship(usury, adultery, sodomy, etc.) was punishable by law.
Photo: Carlos Martínez Álava
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