Sezony
Odcinki
1
The Skin of Our Teeth
In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to…
2
The Great Thaw
In the second episode Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century . He traces …
3
Romance and Reality
Beginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry a…
4
Man: The Measure of all Things
Visiting Florence, where, Clark argues, European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past…
5
The Hero as Artist
Here Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses M…
6
Protest and Communication
Here Clark takes us back to the Reformation. That is to the Germany of Albrecht Duerer and Martin Luther, the world of t…
7
Grandeur and Obedience
Again in Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini, Clark tells of the Catholic Church's fight against the Protestant north, the …
8
The Light of Experience
Here Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water that the telescope and microscope revealed, and the new r…
9
The Pursuit of Happiness
Here Clark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart — and the …
10
The Smile of Reason
Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of…
11
The Worship of Nature
Belief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Western c…
12
The Fallacies of Hope
Here Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nin…
13
Heroic Materialism
Clark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us fro…
