The Transformation and Decline of the Allegory of Love from the 15th to 17th century Europe

本研究的目的是揭示拟人化的寓言“Luxuria”，一个有魅力的邪恶女人，这是七宗罪之一，并引起了各种兴趣，作为一个支点的爱，奢侈品和基督教道德在欧洲中世纪。本文以历史文献为基础，特别是以普鲁登斯9 - 11世纪的《心理学》（Psychomachia）的大量插图手稿为依据，考察和分析了宫廷文化和新兴商业城市文化背景下的宗教和世俗的奢侈思想。

The purpose of this research is to throw some light upon the personified allegory "Luxuria", an attractive woman of Vice, which is one of the Seven Deadly Sins and aroused a variety of interests as a pivot of Love, Luxury and Christian Morals in European Middle Ages. Based upon historical documents, especially upon many illustrated manuscripts of Prudentius' Psychomachia between the 9th and 11th centuries, I consider and analyze the religious and secular thoughts on LUXURIA in both cultural contexts of the court and the rising commercial cities.