The Discarded Image
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

C. S. Lewis (Author)

9781107604704, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 March 2012

242 pages
21.5 x 13.8 x 1.3 cm, 0.35 kg

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 organisation 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'.

Preface
1. The medieval situation
2. Reservations
3. Selected materials: the classical period
4. Selected materials: the seminal period
5. The heavens
6. The longaevi
7. Earth and her inhabitants
8. The influence of the model
Epilogue
Index.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]