The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance LiteratureCambridge University Press, 26. aug. 1994 - 231 sider C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later ages 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' last book, was hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind." |
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THE MEDIEVAL SITUATION | 1 |
RESERVATIONS | 13 |
SELECTED MATERIALS THE CLASSICAL PERIOD | 22 |
A The Somnium Scipionis | 23 |
B Lucan | 29 |
C Statius Claudian and the Lady Natura | 34 |
D Apuleius De Deo Socratis | 40 |
SELECTED MATERIALS THE SEMINAL PERIOD | 45 |
THE LONGAEVI | 122 |
EARTH AND HER INHABITANTS | 139 |
B Beasts | 146 |
C The Human Soul | 152 |
D Rational Soul | 156 |
E Sensitive and Vegetable Soul | 161 |
F Soul and Body | 165 |
G The Human Body | 169 |
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