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"Our intellectual energy, our contact with the great minds of Greece, our ability to move and change, our belief that God may be approached through beauty, our feeling of compassion, our sense of the unity of Christendom - all this, and much more, appeared in those hundered marvellous years." Sir Kenneth traces the sudden re-awakening of European civilisation in the twelth century, from the first manifestations at the Abbey of Cluny, through the work of Gislebertus at Autun, to its high point: the building of Chartres Cathedral.
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Civilisation (1969) - 1x02 - The Great Thaw