psychomachy

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A conflict between the soul and the body; sometimes considered as between good and evil
(Edebiyat) The Psychomachia (Battle of Souls) by the Late Antique Latin poet Prudentius is probably the first and most influential "pure" medieval allegory, the first in a long tradition of works as diverse as the Romance of the Rose, Everyman, and Piers Plowman
A conflict of the soul with the body