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Michael Ward: Planet Narnia

Socrates in the City

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The Lies on the Witch and the Wardrope

Luis wrote that medieval writers and renaissance writers often chose to depict uh jove so that he was jehover incognito. Here in his first narnia story he just cleverly reverses that technique so that his god figure is jove incognito this would be entirely consistent with medieval practice. The whole narnian universe which he upholds so to speak by his word of power is also jovial it's a story of winter passing and summer coming  a story of children becoming kings and queens the joviality is woven into every part of the cosmos including peter more than once in this story exclaims by jove but luis has put

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