Civilisation EP1#1

Kenneth Clark's "Civilisation" - The Skin of our teeth.
The Dark Ages, the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire, Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, Charlenagnes chapel at Aachen, he unravels the extraordinary story of how European thought and art were saved by 'the skin of our teeth'.

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Education

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• Civilisation
• Kenneth Clark
• Rome
• Skellig
• Michael
• Iona
• Charlemagne
• Cross of Lothar
• Norsemen

[d3nv1]

As others have said, Thank you so much for uploading this.... This has been recomended to me several times and I wasn't born when it was broadcast, so this is my only opportunity to see it ! Huge thanks from me!

[luciuslevett]

Thank you so much for uploading this!!

[yodasodaskoda]

@fancythathat yes, great isn't it...

[fancythathat]

Staggeringly ignorant, xenophobic, imperialist, racist, gibberish.

[wishshewaswithme]

shame buildings are of a disposable nature these days....!!!

and Art is in weekness in quality and substitude.

what happened...?

I ask, do you know the answer to this,if so i'd be interested to here.

Kind regards.

[wishshewaswithme]

KENNETH CLARK

star man....so glad the BBC did this ...

10-10

fantastic document video file.

[LietuvaLietuviams1]

ROMEcentric CRAP

[DoovallianStallion]

@ the folks who claim this is racist: I am under the impression that Lord Clarke is using the breadth, depth, historicity, and longevity of European civilization to analyze 'what is civilisation.' It cannot be denied that other cultures failed to develop to the degree (from the caves of Lascaux to the realists or a fellow like Isambard) that Europe's did. There are plenty of complex reasons for this (check out Jared Diamond), but it is the case, nevertheless.

[rocinante14]

Thanks very very much for posting the Civilisation series. This is a true public service.

[Enormymous]

@NIETZSCHEAN14 Try Nietzsche's books on Nietzsche. I believe you will find the very notion of a Nietzschean as oxymoronic as Nietzsche trying to praise some value system that requires no exertion of will from the individual, like race. Remember, the Overman is something you become in your own life as a result of your own efforts, not from some racial mythology as sickening as anything that slithered out of some desert manger.

[NIETZSCHEAN14]

@Enormymous. The idea that Nietzsche did not believe in race, and the natural aristocracy between the races and in the races, is absurd. You need to do some more reading; try Abir Tahar's book on Nietzsche and National Socialism. That book should help to straighten you out. This exchange is over, silly man. :o)