The Discarded Image
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
by C. S. Lewis
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Editions of The Discarded Image
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Cambridge Univ Pr |
Date 1994 |
Price $8.35 |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Cambridge Univ Pr |
Date 1968 |
Price $8.96 |
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Publisher Notes
C.S. Lewis 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 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' last book, was hailed as the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind.
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As the learned professor and student of medieval poetry that he was, [Lewis] is well aware of the many medievalists who have taken this route before him, and have indeed explored a good deal more thoroughly than he seeks to do....On the whole it is a graceful and charming performance, and quite successful in its aim. It leads in very well: but it will outrage each and every professional medievalist who overlooks the prefatory warning and reads on to see how very sketchy it all is, for him, as a representation of the medieval 'Model.'"
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