Machines of the mind : personification in medieval literature / Katharine Breen.
Breen, Katharine, 1973- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2021
PN682.P475 B74 2021
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Title Machines of the mind : personification in medieval literature / Katharine Breen.
Author Breen, Katharine, 1973- author.
ISBN 9780226776620 (electronic book)
022677662X (electronic book)
9780226776453
9780226776590
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 365 pages)
Call Number PN682.P475 B74 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.02
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Part I. Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia
Part II. Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Hello, nurse! The Boethian daemon
Part III. Aristotelian personification. E pluribus unum : abstracting universals from particulars ; Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d'Enfer and Winner and waster
A good body is hard to find : putting personification through the paces in Piers Plowman.

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