Name: The Discarded Image
Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

C. S. Lewis

Lewis

This, Lewis's last book, was hailed asthe final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.

The Discarded Image

Hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind," this work paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

“There were friends, ancestors, patrons in every age. One had one’s place, however modest, in a great succession; one need be neither proud nor lonely.”

sabiduría 

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'.

Sean Wilson

A very readable tour through the cosmos with medieval eyes, and a helpful guide to carefully reading literature of any sort.

The Discarded Image

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