Bankers, builders, and new beginnings
This program illustrates life from the perspective of the medieval merchant: urban, financially sophisticated, and revolving around trade and travel. Demonstrating how the growth of European cities prefaced the end of feudal society and the founding of major universities-while unfortunately enabling...
| Other Authors: | Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English Multiple |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2006], c2004.
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| Physical Description: |
1 streaming video file (53 min.) : sd., col., digital file. |
| Series: |
Europe in the middle ages (Films for Humanities (Firm))
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Cities and Cathedrals in the Middle Ages (2:39)
- Venice: The Middle Age Hubbard of World Trade (2:03)
- Datini: Europe's First Capitalist (4:08)
- Usury in the Middle Ages (2:18)
- Venice and the Black Death (4:28)
- Lazaretto Nuovo (2:26)
- Urban Revolution of the Middle Ages (7:28)
- Hereford Mappa Mundi and Catalan Atlas (3:52)
- Nuremberg Legends: Schedel and Behaim (3:17)
- Chartres Cathedral in France: Ideal Gothic Architecture (5:53)
- Bourges Cathedral in France (3:13)
- Cologne Cathedral in Germany (2:06)
- Bruges, Belgium: The "Venice of the North" (3:38)
- Middle Ages: The Dawn of the Modern Era (2:52)