Prudentius Psychomachia
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Recent papers in Prudentius Psychomachia
Die Psychomachia des Prudentius stellt das erste vollkommen allegorische Epos des Abendlandes dar. Es ist insbesondere in der Kunst und Literatur des Mittelalters vielfältig rezipiert worden. Magnus Frisch legt nun erstmals einen... more
The juxtaposition of emblematic and allegorical persons with detailed architectural spaces in Francesco Colonna’s 1499 Hypnerotomachia represents an independent Renaissance development of medieval mnemotechnical literature, in a book... more
The Hortus deliciarum manuscript was written during the second half of the 12th century in Alsace, probably at the abbey of Hohenbourg, nowadays the Mont Sainte-Odile. The canonesses community was then rulled by the abbess Herrade, who... more
Recent studies of conceptual metaphor and blending provide new tools and vocabulary for an account of allegory as a conceptual operation. Mark Turner's theory of conceptual blending takes off from Lakoff and Johnson's theory of metaphor... more
Abstract: Prudentius’ Psychomachia describes the battle between vice and virtue in each Christian soul; it circulated in England by the late eighth century and survives in around a dozen, including three illustrated, manuscript copies... more
This paper aims to provide a new insight into the first four lines of the hexametric section of Prudentius’ Psychomachia, which include the opening invocation to Christ (Prud. psych. 1) and the dense aretalogical section dedicated to the... more
The paper deals with the fragment of glosses on Prudentius’ Psychomachia in the manuscript of the National Library of Russia Lat. O. v.IV № 1, which is labelled in Russian catalogues as “Handbook of chronology”. Analyzing the choice of... more
Prudentius's popular fourth-century poem describes the internal battle between vice and virtue that occurs in every soul. The Anglo-Saxon illustrated manuscripts draw on earlier continental cycles, borrowing the composition of individual... more
A través del análisis de las miniaturas de cinco copias carolingias del texto de la Psychomachia de Prudencio se estudia cómo fueron utilizadas por los miembros de las comunidades de religiosos a las que dichos códices pertenecieron como... more
"Bollettino di Studi Latini" XLVI.2 (2016), pp. 599-600