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Civilisation

Season 1

1969 • 13 Episodes

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The Skin of Our Teeth

S01 E01 • Sunday, Feb 23, 1969 • Feb 23 • 50m

In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, telling his story of the Dark Ages; the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire.

The Great Thaw

S01 E02 • Sunday, Mar 2, 1969 • Mar 2 • 50m

In the second episode Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century . He traces it from its first manifestations in the Abbey of Cluny to its high point, the building of the Chartres cathedral.

Romance and Reality

S01 E03 • Sunday, Mar 9, 1969 • Mar 9 • 50m

Beginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa as he examines both the aspirations and achievements of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.

Man: The Measure of all Things

S01 E04 • Sunday, Mar 16, 1969 • Mar 16 • 50m

Visiting Florence, where, Clark argues, European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past. He also visits the palaces at Urbino and Mantua, other centres of (Renaissance) civilisation.

The Hero as Artist

S01 E05 • Sunday, Mar 23, 1969 • Mar 23 • 50m

Here Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci, the courtyards of the Vatican, the rooms decorated for the Pope by Raphael, and the Sistine Chapel.

Protest and Communication

S01 E06 • Sunday, Mar 30, 1969 • Mar 30 • 50m

Here Clark takes us back to the Reformation. That is to the Germany of Albrecht Duerer and Martin Luther, the world of the humanitarians Erasmus, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.

Grandeur and Obedience

S01 E07 • Sunday, Apr 6, 1969 • Apr 6 • 50m

Again in Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini, Clark tells of the Catholic Church's fight against the Protestant north, the Counter-Reformation and the Church's new splendour symbolized by the glory of St. Peter's.

The Light of Experience

S01 E08 • Sunday, Apr 13, 1969 • Apr 13 • 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 the Dutch paintings which took the observation of human character to a higher stage of development.

The Pursuit of Happiness

S01 E09 • Sunday, Apr 20, 1969 • Apr 20 • 50m

Here Clark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart — and the reflection of these in the Rococo churches and palaces of Bavaria.

The Smile of Reason

S01 E10 • Sunday, Apr 27, 1969 • Apr 27 • 50m

Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteenth-century, through the subsequent revolutionary politics to the great European palaces of Blenheim and Versailles finally to Jefferson's Monticello.

The Worship of Nature

S01 E11 • Sunday, May 4, 1969 • May 4 • 50m

Belief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Western civilisation and ushered in the Romantic movement. Here Clark visits Tintern Abbey, the Alps, and there discusses the landscapes of Turner and Constable.

The Fallacies of Hope

S01 E12 • Sunday, May 11, 1969 • May 11 • 50m

Here Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nineteenth century and traces the disillusionment of the Romanticism artists is traced from Beethoven's, Byron's poetry, Delacroix's paintings to Rodin's sculpture.

Heroic Materialism

S01 E13 • Sunday, May 18, 1969 • May 18 • 50m

Clark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us from the industrial landscape of nineteenth century England to the skyscrapers of twentieth century New York. The achievements of the engineers and scientists - such as Brunel and Rutherford - having been matched by the great reformers like Wilberforce and Shaftsbury.

Civilisation

Season 1

1969 • 13 Episodes