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

5.0

The 'space' of modern astronomy may arouse terror, or bewilderment or vague reverie; the spheres of the old present us with an object in which the mind can rest, overwhelming in its greatness but satisfying in its harmony. That is the sense in which our universe is romantic, and theirs was classical.

A brilliant and comprehensive dive into the literary psyche of the Middle Ages. Lewis presents a model of the medieval universe that neatly synthesizes the epistemology and foundational ontology that characterizes the rhetoric and belief of this period.