The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062313706 (0062313703)
Publish date: November 5th 2013
Publisher: HarperOne
Pages no: 100
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Religion,
Philosophy
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...
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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