Inside the medieval mind. Belief / a co-production of the BBC and Open University ; produced and directed by Victoria Page; written and presented by Robert Bartlett.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Page, Victoria, producer, director.

Bartlett, Richard, host.

British Broadcasting Corporation, producer.

Open University, producer.

Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), distributor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Inside the medieval mind

Inside the Medieval Mind

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Middle Ages.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Belief

Place of Publication:

Hamilton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2010]

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

"Founded in 1230, Scotland's Pluscarden Abbey still pulses with the prayers and spiritual pursuits of Benedictine monks. Abbot Hugh Gilbert describes their work in reassuringly human terms, framing the Christian battle against Satanic evil as an inner struggle within one's own psyche. But, as this program shows, the culture which brought Pluscarden into existence was rigidly institutional--and entrenched in the cosmology of heaven and hell. The film explores demonic possession and brushes with the afterlife, as recorded in documents of the period; the spiritual conflict between angels and demons that held sway over the medieval imagination; and the contrasting ways in which the era's poor and wealthy sought divine protection"--Container.

Participant:

Presented by Robert Bartlett.

Credits:

Cinematography, Graeme Dawson, Martin Johnson and Judith Robson.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781616169985

1616169982

OCLC:

656451360