His last academic work, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964), is a summary of the medieval world view, a reference to the "discarded image" of the cosmos.
Hans senere arbejde The Discarded Image, an Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964) er en udmærket opsummering af middelalderens syn på verden, det forkastede billede af universet fra titlen.