Discarded Image

Description

The Discarded Image presents the medieval worldview through the historical and cultural background to the Middle Ages and Renaissance literature. C.S. Lewis describes the “image” of the “single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe, the medieval synthesis itself. Artists, philosophers, and historians discarded this image in the cultures of later years to the detriment of the Western world.

This is C.S. Lewis’ last book. Many people don’t realize that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were both avid Medieval scholars. Together, they contributed much to this crucial period’s historical, literary, and philosophical study, often mistakenly called the “Dark Ages.” This book is a scholarly work, worth the intellectual work for anyone interested in understanding the Western intellectual tradition.