C. S. Lewis: The Discarded Image (Canto Classics), Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Discarded Image (Canto Classics)
Buch
- An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
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- Verlag:
- Cambridge University Press, 02/2019
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107604704
- Artikelnummer:
- 2361261
- Umfang:
- 242 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2012
- Gewicht:
- 348 g
- Maße:
- 213 x 141 mm
- Stärke:
- 12 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 22.2.2019
- Hinweis
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Kurzbeschreibung
Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.Beschreibung
The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years 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, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.Inhaltsangabe
Preface; 1. The medieval situation; 2. Reservations; 3. Selected materials: the classical period; 4. Selected materials: the seminal period; 5. The heavens; 6. The longaevi; 7. Earth and her inhabitants; 8. The influence of the model; Epilogue; Index.Klappentext
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 the 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's last book was hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.

C. S. Lewis
The Discarded Image (Canto Classics)
Vorheriger Preis EUR 30,95, reduziert um 5%
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