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'.
| ISBN: | 9781107604704 |
| Publication date: | 29th March 2012 |
| Author: | C S Lewis |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 242 pages |
| Series: | Canto Classics |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: general History of ideas |