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by C. S. Lewis (Author) "Medieval man shared many ignorances with the savage, and some of his beliefs may suggest savage parallels to an anthropologist ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 242 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New edition edition (26 Aug 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0521477352
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521477352
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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‘Wise, illuminating, companionable, it may well come to be seen as Lewis’ s best book.’ The Observer

‘… erudite and graceful, filled with anecdote and analogy, illuminating the images of the past.’ Los Angeles Times

‘… his wonderful gusto, the clarity of his style, the wit of his comments and analogies, the range of his learning and the liveliness of his mind are displayed to the full, warmed by a prevailing good humour.’ Helen Gardner, The Listener


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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’.
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5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating, readable, superior scholarship, 29 Jan 2005
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This is one of Lewis's more difficult-to-find academic works. However, if you find it and read it, you will not be disappointed. I read the book on my own initiative while taking a master's class in Medieval literature. I probably learned as much from his book as I did from the whole class, and it opened up countless delightful possibilities for future enquiry. It also gave me a great idea for my final paper, which I'd been lacking the inspiration to write.

What's more, this work is still respected in academia. Recently I was reading a Cambridge thesis on the subject of early printing (The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein) and came across a quote from _The Discarded Image_ (an uncited quote, which was annoying, but that's another story). Eisenstein quotes most authors in order to disagree with them, but she didn't disagree with Lewis (added to him, qualified him, but didn't disagree), which was unusual. Lewis was one of the few authors in her field that Eisenstein did not attack! I also passed _The Discarded Image_ along to one of my previous college professors and he decided to include ideas from it in his Survey of English Literature course.

If you want to know how medieval men and women saw their world - their belief in supernatural beings intermediate between angels and devils, their admiration for all kinds of organization, their heavy reliance on the snippet of Plato to which they had access-read this book. You will never see the Middle Ages quite the same way again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Heliocentrica non Credo, 10 Oct 2005
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This book was mentioned by Fred Gettings in his book on the medieval symbolism of the Tarot. It is probably a set book for students of English Language but I would follow Gettings and recommend it to esotericals. He explains subjects like the four humours in relation to personality and how the universe looked to people before Copernicus. He looks at the classics as they were known before the renaissance and how astrology and church doctrine had to rub along together.Anyone who wants to study traditional astrogy or magic will find this a useful way of making the necessary alterations to our modern "rational" worldview.
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