- 1994, 18th impression, edition. 359 pages.
- Published by BBC Books, London.
- Softcover.
- Good plus condition. Moderate creases to covers.
Photo - colour and black and white - illustrated. Indexed.
A personal view of how Western Europe evolved after the collapse of the Roman Empire and produced the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up a Civilisation.
As Kenneth Clark takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day, he does not attempt to give us a complete record but concentrates on crucial civilising episodes - from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America.
Against these historical backgrounds he shows us both the men who gave new energy to civilisation and explanded our understanding of the world and ourselves, and the works of genius, in architecture, sculpture and painting, in philosophy, poetry and music, in science and in engineering, which they produced.
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