Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Prudentian Personification
6. 1. Consecratus Manu: Men Forming Gods Forming Men 35
7. 2. How to Fight like a Girl: Christianizing Personification in the Psychomachia 69
8. Part II: Neoplatonic Personification
9. 3. Ex Uno Omnia: Plato’s Forms and Daemons 111
10. 4. Hello, Nurse! The Boethian Daemon 150
11. Part III: Aristotelian Personification
12. 5. E Pluribus Unum: Abstracting Universals from Particulars 203
13. 6. Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d’Enfer and Winner and Waster 234
14. 7. A Good Body Is Hard to Find: Putting Personification through Its Paces in Piers Plowman 274
15. Notes 317
16. Index 357