The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Language: English
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: Jan 1, 1964
Collection:
Nonfiction
Reading Ease:
70.76
Genre:
Nonfiction (General)
Page Count:
231
Word Count:
60942
Book Details
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Description:
In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe." This, Lewis’s last book, has been hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind."