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In The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis 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...
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Oxford University Press
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2013.
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English
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From Plautus's comedy the Brothers Menaechmus (late third century BC) to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (late second century AD), this lavish anthology introduces readers to the marvels of ancient Roman literature. Most of the authors included here wrote in Latin, but as the anthology moves forward in time, relevant Greek texts that reflect the diversity of Roman literary life are also included, something no other such anthology has done in the...
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University of California Press
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©2001
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English
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"This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin A. Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans. Her provocative and original inquiry focuses on the sentiments of honor that shaped the Romans' sense of themselves and their society. Speaking directly...
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