Details
Rent Skull and the Rose
Author:
Narrator: John Buckmann
Format: Abridged CD
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)
Published: Mar 2003
Genre: History - Medieval
Discs: 3
Synopsis
A social history of the Middle Ages, first broadcast on IDEAS in 1977, by John Buckmann, professor of history at York University in Toronto. The millennium from 500 to 1500 A.D. saw the birth of the first truly Western civilization. We survey the classes (aristocracy, clergy, peasants), the religion, the literature and the manners of medieval Europe, and meet Eleanor of Aquitaine and her colleagues whose ambitions and ideas gave birth to the people we are today.