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The Discarded Image (Canto Classics)

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

Current price: $19.99
Publication Date: March 30th, 2012
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
9781107604704
Pages:
242

Description

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'.