# Civilisation: 2 -- The Great Thaw

-----Another issue. 35 mm

Writer and narrator, Kenneth Clark

Surveys the development of western civilization during the 12th century from restless curiosity to system and order, as evidenced in the construction of the Abbey of Cluny, the work of Abelard and St. Thomas Aquinas, and the the rebuilding of Chartres cathedral

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1969
- By: British Broadcasting Corporation, Time-Life Films
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/civilisation2thegreatthaw)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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