CONGRESS CANCELED C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages
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In his popular account of medieval cosmology, The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis, somewhat surprisingly, invests a chapter in explaining the "Longaevi" --the long livers, the fairies, and other "flexible" creatures not quite accounted for in what he calls the "classic severity of the huge design." Our session intends to look at such creatures, including Lewis's defamiliarized angel-like beings and pagan gods adapted to the medieval Christian schema, as examples of Lewis's idiosyncratic version of mythographic medievalism.
Joe Ricke
CONGRESS CANCELED C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages
Valley 3 Eldridge 309
In his popular account of medieval cosmology, The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis, somewhat surprisingly, invests a chapter in explaining the "Longaevi" --the long livers, the fairies, and other "flexible" creatures not quite accounted for in what he calls the "classic severity of the huge design." Our session intends to look at such creatures, including Lewis's defamiliarized angel-like beings and pagan gods adapted to the medieval Christian schema, as examples of Lewis's idiosyncratic version of mythographic medievalism.
Joe Ricke