MEDIEVAL MIND [motion picture]
Series: MCIS film collection
Place of publication: EBEC, c1969
Number of pages: 26
Description: Active, curious, inventive and tough - these were the traits of the medieval mind, not so different from our own. But the Middle Ages had special tensions and conflicts - conveyed to us through reports adapted from men and women of the time. The architecture of the cathedrals reflects an "uneasy balance of opposing forces" with soaring columns, arches and flying buttresses. Men may have reached for the city of God, but to live in the real world, they invented the harness and horseshoes, the stirrup, water-wheel, eyeglasses, Mercy and cruelty-attractions of the present world versus hope for Paradise-advanced technology versus spirtuality-these were the tensions that left their permanent mark on Western Civilization.
Notes: Miami University's MCIS film collection