Psychomachis and allegory

The Psychomachia (Battle for Mansoul) by the Late AntiqueLatinpoetPrudentius 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 poem describes the conflict ( Read more... )