At 11:57 30/03/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear Carlos,
>Is it possible that this sort of depiction of the devil developed
>from earlier traditions of representing vices, as in illuminated
>manuscripts of Prudentius' Psychomachia?
>Cheers,
>Jim Bugslag
>P.S. Many thanks for the reference you sent.
Dear Jim:
The problem with *Psychomachia* is that the earliest illuminated
mss. we know are not older than c. 850. Anyway, it is an interesting
suggestion. Devil is, like Vices in Prudentius' poem, nothing but a
personification of Evil.
Thank you
Carlos Sastre
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