In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings...

In the second episode Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century . He trac...

Beginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistr...

Visiting Florence, where, Clark argues, European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical p...

Here Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusse...

Here Clark takes us back to the Reformation. That is to the Germany of Albrecht Duerer and Martin Luther, the world o...

Again in Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini, Clark tells of the Catholic Church's fight against the Protestant north, t...

Here Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water that the telescope and microscope revealed, and the ne...

Here Clark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart — and t...

Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons...

Belief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Wester...

Here Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the ...

Clark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us ...