The Psychomachia (Battle of spirits) by the Late Antique Latin poet Prudentius, during the early fifth century A.D. (C.E.), is probably the first and most influential `pure` medieval allegory, the first in a long tradition of works as diverse as the Romance of the Rose, Everyman, and Piers Plowman. In slightly less than a thousand lines, the poe.....
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(from the article `Prudentius`) Christian Latin poet whose Psychomachia (`The Contest of the Soul`), the first completely allegorical poem in European literature, was immensely ... ...Both used the old classical forms with considerable skill, filling them with a fresh Christian spirit. Prudentius` work is both the finer in ......
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psychomachy, psychomachia Conflict between the body and the soul.
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