The Discarded Image (Canto Classics): An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature - Brossura

Lewis, C. S. S.

 
9781107604704: The Discarded Image (Canto Classics): An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

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Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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Descrizione del libro

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'.

Contenuti

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.

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