February 23, 1969 • 50m
In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemag...Read more
March 2, 1969 • 50m
In the second episode Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century . He traces it from it...Read more
March 9, 1969 • 50m
Beginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa as ...Read more
March 16, 1969 • 50m
Visiting Florence, where, Clark argues, European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past. He also ...Read more
March 23, 1969 • 50m
Here Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses Michelangel...Read more
March 30, 1969 • 50m
Here Clark takes us back to the Reformation. That is to the Germany of Albrecht Duerer and Martin Luther, the world of the humanit...Read more
April 6, 1969 • 50m
Again in Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini, Clark tells of the Catholic Church's fight against the Protestant north, the Counter-Re...Read more
April 13, 1969 • 50m
Here Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water that the telescope and microscope revealed, and the new realism in ...Read more
April 20, 1969 • 50m
Here Clark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart — and the reflection...Read more
April 27, 1969 • 50m
Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteent...Read more
May 4, 1969 • 50m
Belief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Western civilisatio...Read more
May 11, 1969 • 50m
Here Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nineteenth ce...Read more
May 18, 1969 • 50m
Clark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us from the indu...Read more