Books that will help me understand the ancient/medieval worldview?
>>23617249How come I've never seen this 'lewis? I've read every lewis.
>>23617401This was Lewis wearing his medievalist hat, has nothing to do with Christian apologetics or the like. It’s an interesting read if you want to understand the medieval ‘model’ of the cosmos.
>>23617249Have you considered reading works by ancient and medieval authors
Laurus - Eugene Vodolazkin
I would think St. Augustine is pretty obviously a must read. Allegedly, Charlemagne had City of God read to him often.
I read both the Discarded Image and the Ancient City. I think I need to go back and reread, because it didn't really sink in. Pre-modern people and culture are strange.
>>23617249It depends what you're looking for. Your question encompasses both a massive time frame along with a very general criterium.If you're looking for a text that gives you a general idea of what normal people living in medieval England were like, what they believed, and how they acted, then Canterbury Tales is a great read.
>>23617401It went to print a couple months after his death, so isn't included in some lists of his writings.
>>23617249Foxe's Book of Martyrs
>>23619025Absolutely, but wouldn’t it help to have context going in?>>23619029Read it, and yeah I agree. Should’ve added it to the pic>>23619094Read Discarded image a while back and I liked it. I’m reading the Ancient City now, but it is kind of boring me. But I can see that it’s important.
>>23617249Protip: If a non-fiction book does have a long boring-ass and/or descriptive name 9 times out of 10 it is pop garbage.
>>23619305>Absolutely, but wouldn’t it help to have context going in?You can get sufficient context from introductions/indexes/footnotes/etc Pretty much every modern edition of an ancient or medieval work will contain these
>>23619340Did you mean 'does' or 'does not'?
>>23619424does not* sorry
>>23617249"The Great Chain of Being" A. Lowejoy
