Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Prudentian Personification
1. Consecratus Manu: Men Forming Gods Forming Men
2. How to Fight like a Girl: Christianizing Personification in the Psychomachia
Part II: Neoplatonic Personification
3. Ex Uno Omnia: Plato's Forms and Daemons
4. Hello, Nurse! The Boethian Daemon
Part III: Aristotelian Personification
5. E Pluribus Unum: Abstracting Universals from Particulars
6. Dreaming of Aristotle in the Songe d'Enfer and Winner and Waster
7. A Good Body Is Hard to Find: Putting Personification through Its Paces in Piers Plowman
Notes
Index