Description:

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." “The Discarded Image” originally appeared in the print book The Discarded Image, published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press in 1964. The text in this edition is taken from the 2012 paperback edition published by Canto.