C. S. Lewis's 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 organisation of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe'. This, Lewis's last book, was hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.
- ISBN13 9780521477352
- Publish Date 26 August 1994 (first published 1 January 1964)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 29 January 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 242
- Language English