The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

C.S. Lewis

231 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative slow-paced

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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 synthe...

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