Civilisation EP1#3

Kenneth Clarke'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 Clarke
• Rome
• Skellig
• Michael
• Iona
• Charlemagne
• Cross of Lothar
• Norsemen

[NIETZSCHEAN14]

"Fighting." In other words - "THE WILL TO POWER". Friedrich Nietzsche was right . Force rules the world, regardless of what the politically correct, bleeding heart liberals, would have us believe.

[Inediblehulk]

I wonder how one goes about getting a few days alone with that Celtic book. I sincerely believe far more information can be conveyed in less space and time with abstract symbols than with words, although with much lower fidelity and precision. Much of this very film teaches symbolically, whether you are consciously learning or not. The thousands of pictures in that book may be worth millions of pages.

[ezelite]

@GordonMorrice We had a lot to fear from our own lords and barons as well, and the terror their knights would have inflicted on the local population, especially the Norman castles!

[SHMUJEW]

now we have to defeat the muslim hordes again

[GordonMorrice]

The Vikings, once feared, now forgotten. Today we fear Muslims, yet compared to those mightly Norsemen of Old, Muslims merely bother us in an abstract way. The modern Muslim in Britain is harmless. We have pampered ourselves into a state of coddled materialism and ungrounded superiority lifted from lost Empirical dominance. Therefore, our rancourousness - not to mention our low birth-rates - makes us open to being superceded in the coming generations.

[NastevilsBack]

Respond to this video... Lord Clark converted to Roman Catholicism in 1983 before he died.

[NastevilsBack]

@drcpug Oh yes, there are now more tolerant opinions of Muslims today. Too bad though that the Muslims aren't all that tolerant of the rest of us.

[NastevilsBack]

@williamqprice Lord Clark was a convert to Roman Catholicism late in his life. When this series was made he was a member of the Church of England.

[RPenta]

Respond to this video...

things would not be as bad. 

[RPenta]

@williamqprice

It is amazing that the historic religious enemies of Christianity persist to this day--Islam and Judaism--or to be precise Zionism--of course, if we did not terrorize the Moslem world for the last half century and give uncritical support to Israel.