The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis
The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis
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The Discarded Image
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Author: C. S. Lewis

Narrator: Richard Elwood

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/21/2021

Synopsis

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 organization 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'.

About C. S. Lewis

It is a lofty goal, but many would be pleased if the work they accomplished would last well after their death, and be lauded with posthumous praise. Such is what happened to British author Clive Staples Lewis. He was born on November 29, 1898 and passed on November 22, 1963...... just prior to his 65th birthday. It was 2013 on the 50th Anniversary of Lewis' death, that he was honored by being given a memorial in Poet's Corner in West minister Abbey.

Lewis wore many professional hats......that of novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. His best known work is The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, and The Space Trilogy. He is the author of more than 30 books, translated into over 30 languages. As we are all aware, The Chronicles of Narnia had tremendous sales numbers and have been made popular on stage, TV, radio, and cinema.

Lewis married American author, Joy Davidman, in 1956, but sadly, she passed away only four years later from cancer at only 45 years old. Lewis then died in 1963 of renal failure.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Terry

To me, this might be C. S. Lewis' best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the Narnia books (too allegorical and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his "Space Trilogy" I think that Lewis was much better as a writer of academic non-fiction than he w......more

Goodreads review by Cindy

Lewis's treatise on Medieval Cosmology which ends on this lovely quote: "I take it to be part and parcel of the same great process of Internalisation18 which has turned genius from an attendant daemon into a quality of the mind. Always, century by century, item after item is transferred from the objec......more

Goodreads review by J. Aleksandr

To try to get into the Medieval or Early Modern mindset and understand its literature and culture without a guide like The Discarded Image is, increasingly, an exercise in frustration and errors undetected. The Early Modernists (the self-styled "Renaissance") were, for all their posturing, still ess......more

Goodreads review by C.R.

Probably Lewis's least read work. In my opinion it is his most important book. Generally, fans of Lewis admire his apologetics or his fiction but can't approach his genius with either. True, he was a very gifted communicator. But what these people don't seem to understand is Lewis was not a modern ma......more

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