The Discarded Image

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name = The Discarded Image
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = C. S. Lewis
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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subject = Literary criticism
genre = Non-fiction
publisher = Cambridge University Press
pub_date = 1964
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 242 pp
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"The Discarded
" is non-fiction and the last book written by C. S. Lewis. Multilayered, it is on one level a work that deals with medieval cosmology and the Ptolemaic universe, the "model" of the world used by the medievals - "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe."fact|date=March 2008

Themes

The central themes of the book include the structure of the medieval universe, the nature of its inhabitants, the notion of a finite universe, ordered and maintained by a celestial hierarchy, and the ideas of nature. At the same time, Lewis takes his reader on a tour of some of the pinnacles of medieval thought (some of them inherited from Classical Paganism) that have survived into the modern cultural and theological landscape.

elected reviews

Several reviews of the book were positive, for example,
* "Wise, illuminating, companionable, it may well come to be seen as Lewis’ s best book." "The Observer" fact|date=March 2008
* "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind." fact|date=March 2008

Footnotes

References

*cite journal
title=The Model Universe
author=Burrow, John
journal=Essays in Criticism
year=1965
volume=XV |issue=2
pages=207–211
doi=10.1093/eic/XV.2.207
publisher=Oxford University Press
*cite web|accessdate=
url=http://www.necessaryprose.com/cslewis.htm
author= Mader, Eric
title="The Discarded Image": C.S. Lewis' Short Course on the Middle Ages
date=2005
work=Necessary Prose
*cite journal
title=The Alterity of Medieval Literature - Medieval Literature and Contemporary Theory
author=J. A. Burrow
journal=New Literary History
year=Winter, 1979
volume=10 |issue=2
pages=385–390
doi=
publisher=

ee also

*The Waning of the Middle Ages