The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto Classics)

Lewis C. S.

ISBN 10: 1107604702 / ISBN 13: 9781107604704

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2012

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pp. 242.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto Classics)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107604702
• ISBN 13: 9781107604704
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Discarded Image 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'.

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C. S. Lewis's The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and the renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later ages 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 was hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.