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

Lewis, C. S. S.

 
9781107604704: The Discarded Image (Canto Classics): An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Synopsis

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

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

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'.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.