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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto) - Community Reviews back

by C.S. Lewis
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The City Of Invention
The City Of Invention rated it 16 years ago
C S Lewis' introduction to Medieval and Renaissance literature focuses on the medieval world view. He outlines medieval cosmology, beliefs about humanity and attitudes to the classical past and to scholarship in general, summarising the principal classical and late classical/early medieval authors t...
D3's Booklog
D3's Booklog rated it 17 years ago
To me, this might be C. S. Lewis' best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the Narnia books (too allegorical and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his "Space Trilogy" I think that Lewis was much better as a writer of academic non-fiction than he w...
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