| MID | Alpha Title | Title | Year | Color/BW | Running Time | Formats | Abstract | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1203 | GREAT THAW, THE | GREAT THAW, THE | 1970 | color | 50 min | 16mm | (Civilisation series, Part 2)
The emergence of Medieval Europe in the twelfth century, with the flowering of the Romanesque style, the founding of universities, the spread of monasticism; an age of pilgrimages--to the Holy Land, to Rome and Santiago de Compostela--and of the building of great churches; of the new view of man of Peter Abelard and the synthesis of Classic and Christian heritages in the great vision of St. Thomas Aquinas. It was a period which saw, under the inspiration of the Abbot Suger, the creation of the Gothic style at the ancient Royal Abbey of St. Denis and its' flowering at Chartres.
[ Note: this title is now available on video--look for it under the title Civilisation, Programs 1-3 ] |