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The Discarded Image (Canto Classics)

by C. S. Lewis

A guide to the medieval world view

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A guide to the medieval world view

C. S. Lewis explains the interconnected framework through which medieval thinkers organized theology, science, and history, placing literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance within its historical and cultural context. The book’s subject is not a single text or period work, but the shared intellectual model that shaped how the medieval world understood the universe. This makes it a work of literary criticism with a wider historical scope, offering context for approaching writing from those eras.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers studying medieval and Renaissance literature
  • Those interested in the history of medieval ideas and world views
  • Readers seeking historical context for literature

Themes

Medieval world viewTheology, science, and historyHistorical context for literatureMedieval and Renaissance literature

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Book overview

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'.
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