The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

LEWIS, C.S.

Item Number: 140467

London: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

First edition of Lewis’ final work on medieval cosmology. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Will Carter.

Lewis' final book dealing with medieval cosmology and the Ptolemaic universe, The Discarded Image presents "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe." The book includes such concepts as the structure of the medieval universe, the nature of its inhabitants, the notion of a finite universe, ordered and maintained by a celestial hierarchy, and the ideas of nature. At the same time, Lewis takes his reader on a tour of some of the pinnacles of medieval thought (some of them inherited from Classical paganism) that have survived into the modern cultural and theological landscape.