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17 février 2013
- handle: 10670/1.5n9ki8
- isbn: 9781906924164
- eisbn: 9781906924171
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Marc Mastrangelo, « 8. Typology and Agency in Prudentius’s Treatment of the Judith Story », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.5n9ki8
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In the late fourth century, the Christian poet Prudentius wrote the Psychomachia (The Battle within the Soul), which depicts a series of single combats between personified virtues and vices. Immensely popular in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Psychomachia’s allegorical battles were depicted in a variety of relief sculptures and paintings throughout churches in Europe. In his poem, Prudentius frequently uses a character or story from the Old Testament that prefigures a character or event...