Civilisation: 3-Romance and Reality Pt. 1

Duration: 26 min

Creator: Time-Life

Color: color

Description: Presents the Thirteenth Century as marking the emergence of woman as an ideal with courtly love coming into its own as the ultimate in aesthetic and ascetic devotion. Reflects worldly happiness in the life of St. Francis and that curious work of religious genius, "The Little Flowers." Emphasizes the four greatest patrons of the Gothic world in Charles V, the King of France; the Duke of Burgundy; Louis D'Anjou; and the Duke of Berry. Point;, out this as the era in which the sweetness of life and the purifying power of love, both human and divine, came in to their own.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)