The Dark Ages: An Age of Light

The Dark Ages: An Age of Light

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Were the Dark Ages really so terrible? Art historian Waldemar Januszczak (Every Picture Tells a Story) journeys back in time to fi nd answers. Traveling from Britain to North Africa, from Byzantium to Spain, he reveals the mysteries of early Christian art, Islam's mosques, Anglo-Saxon metalwork, and more, finding beauty and refi nement where one might have expected brutality and destruction.
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Episodi

  1. S1 E1 - The Clash of the Gods

    27 novembre 2012
    60min
    7+
    As Christianity became the religion of an empire, the symbols scratched on catacomb walls gave way to magnificent sacred art and spectacular places of worship to house it.
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  2. S1 E2 - What the Barbarians Did for Us

    4 dicembre 2012
    1h
    7+
    Although they are blamed for the fall of Rome, the barbarians were more than just fearsome warriors. Converted to Christianity in the fourth century, the Vandals, Goths, and Huns went on to produce some of the greatest artistic and architectural achievements of the Dark Ages.
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  3. S1 E3 - The Wonder of Islam

    11 dicembre 2012
    60min
    7+
    To the south and east of Christendom, the new religion of Islam spread from its Arabian birthplace throughout the Middle East, across North Africa, and into Spain. As it did so, Islam imparted its own distinctive forms of architecture, ways to gaze at the stars, and art designed to depict the wonders of paradise.
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  4. S1 E4 - The Men of the North

    18 dicembre 2012
    1h
    7+
    Across the waters of the North Sea, the Vikings launched raids on the coasts of Britain and Ireland, targeting monasteries like Lindisfarne, where monks produced illuminated manuscripts of breathtaking beauty. Yet the Vikings who terrorized Dark Age Europe spent as much time creating their own stunning artwork as they did stealing it from others.
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