Civilisation episode 1 – The Skin of Our Teeth

Civilisation episode 1 – The Skin of Our Teeth: Sir Kenneth Clark begins his classic 1969 series on the history of civilisation with the re-establishment of civilisation in Western Europe, in the tenth century after the fall of Rome to barbarism. He travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides examining aqueducts, cathedrals, the lives of the Vikings and of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne.     Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy.   Civilisation episode 1 – The Skin of Our Teeth   Charlemagne or Charles the Great (2 April 742 – […]

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