In Search of the Dark Ages is a BBC television documentary series, written and presented by historian Michael Wood, first shown between 1979 and 1981. It comprises eight short films across two series, each focusing on a particular character from the history of England prior to the Norman Conquest, a period popularly known as the Dark Ages. It is also the title of a book written...
In Search of the Dark Ages is a BBC television documentary series, written and presented by historian Michael Wood, first shown between 1979 and 1981. It comprises eight short films across two series, each focusing on a particular character from the history of England prior to the Norman Conquest, a period popularly known as the Dark Ages. It is also the title of a book written...
《迈克尔·伍德》讲述了英国历史上一个地方的故事——在莱斯特郡的基布沃村。这个村庄经历了黑死病、内战和工业革命,并在第二次世界大战中被炸毁。
第一部分:罗马人到诺曼人
在当地人民的帮助下,利用考古学、风景、语言和DNA,迈克尔发现了基布沃斯最初千年的失落历史,其中有一座罗马别墅、盎格鲁-撒克逊人和维京人,以及诺曼征服前夕生活的生动证据。
第二部分:《大宪章》的末日审判
伍德独特的肖像一直延续到1066年,当时诺曼人在齐贝沃斯建造了一座城堡。他揭示了职业如何影响村民从绞刑架到alehouse,并展示了中世纪的开放领域的行动。在当地人的帮助下,他记录了导致人们卷入西蒙·德·蒙福特内战的村庄事件。
第三部分:大饥荒和黑死病
在14世纪,基布沃斯经历了欧洲历史上最严重的饥荒,然后,正如牛津默顿学院的村庄档案所揭示的那样,三分之二的人死于黑死病。在今天的村民和当...
Consists of segments: (1) "The Classical Ideal". The origins of Western art are traced to ancient Greece through Kouroi and Korai figures, as well as by the architectures of the Pantheon. From Greece to Rome through the Hellenistic period, the program focuses on the new artistic approach to human form and violent emotions that reached its pinnacle with the altar of Zeus at Perg...
Historian Michael Wood presents a portrait of ordinary people living through extraordinary times, tracing the story of a real-life peasant of 14th-century Hertfordshire.
She wasn't a famous person, or of noble blood, yet Christina's story is important in understanding our own roots. In this time of war, famine, floods, climate change and the Black Death are the beginnings of th...
历史学家迈克尔·伍德探寻杜甫的足迹,伊恩·麦克莱恩爵士朗读英文版的杜甫诗歌。
Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan literary critic said that the witty soul of Ovid lived on in 'honey tongued Shakespeare' they were just stating the obvious. Ovid, everyone knew, was simply the most clever, sexy and funny poet in the western tradition. His Metamorphoses,...