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

Author / Editor
Lewis, C. S.

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

Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

Physical Description
viii, 232 pp.

Description
Intellectual backgrounds to the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, with particular attention to literature, classical, and late-classical influences; the concept of the universe and the earth; human physiology and psychology; and cultural influences on modern notions and idioms. Recurrent attention to Chaucer's works and their reflections and representations of the medieval/Renaissance world view.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Critricism