In eleven forty seven Fontenay Abbey and burgundy received an illustrious visitor. Pope eugenias the third came to consecrate the abbey church. Among the numerous cardinals and bishops and abbots at the service whose bell now of one of the most influential churchmen of the twelfth century. He was born of landed aristocracy but at the age of twenty two radically changed his life. In april eleven hundred twelve accompanied by some thirty friends and relations he entered the Cistercian Community at sea to the new sister sion orders were reforming monastic life seeking a return to simple christian values that are not responded to the reformist call with enthusiasm. Lease. Spread fast new ministry sprang up in the forests of burgundy and gemini. Disapproved of the benedictine elite at cluny the power lust of the clergy in rome and the growing of episcopal churches instead they call for austerity and toil they cleared woodland for example and regulated the flow of rivers one new ministry aft
They once formed part of yugoslavia. For centuries, it has played an Important Role in society, culture, and economy. The community has a cam accused croatias new rightwing government of denying the crimes during world war two. Tens of thousands died in the death camps known as the croatian shorts. Here, we meet mr. Goldstein , slavko goldstein, who lost some of his family there and is fearful of the past been forgotten. There is not much left. Slavko goldstein shows us around the memorial site at the former concentration camp. Mr. Goldstein you can see some of the freight wagons, the prisoner transports. Right over there. They executed people over there on the other side. I lost my grandmother, grandfather, uncle, two cousins. One was 11 years old. The other was nine. A group of men approach. It makes slavko a little nervous. Mr. Goldstein it is a provocation. Slavko calls the security guard. Things could get out of hand. Mr. Goldstein they might beat someone up, or even kill somebody
They once formed part of yugoslavia. For centuries, it has played an Important Role in society, culture, and economy. The community has a cam accused croatias new rightwing government of denying the crimes during world war two. Tens of thousands died in the death camps known as the croatian shorts. Here, we meet mr. Goldstein , slavko goldstein, who lost some of his family there and is fearful of the past been forgotten. There is not much left. Slavko goldstein shows us around the memorial site at the former concentration camp. Mr. Goldstein you can see some of the freight wagons, the prisoner transports. Right over there. They executed people over there on the other side. I lost my grandmother, grandfather, uncle, two cousins. One was 11 years old. The other was nine. A group of men approach. It makes slavko a little nervous. Mr. Goldstein it is a provocation. Slavko calls the security guard. Things could get out of hand. Mr. Goldstein they might beat someone up, or even kill somebody
Quadriga and were going to talk about it with three people who watch u. S. Politics very closey. Its a pleasure to welcome crist jana maya, a correspondent be with the morning show and former by reported for a. I. D. From washington. She says we look at with shock and no awe at a u. S. Campaign at a man who be would be fired from any school for his hateful, racist remarks writes our next guest about politics. She says one of the Biggest Challenges for Hillary Clinton see that her s to conventional qualities as a candidate matter more than Donald Trumps populism. And Erik Kirschbaum now works as a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in berlin. He says there is a lot of frustration with the government n europe and it the moon i fests itself in support for rightwing candidates like pen. But its hard to imagine americans electing anyone by clinton. Can we really be sure its going to be clinton against trump when it comes to the general election . Or i iit possiblble there could be more
For the First Time Since classical antiquity, a western artist aerts his own vision and western art finds its own distinctive style romanesque. Although the roman empire was conquered by the barbarians and the lands of western europe were overrun by pagan tribes in the dark ages, roman civilization, and above all roman christianity, triumphed in the long run. Converted to the new faith, the former barbarians became the heirs of rome and the founders of modern europe. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the period we call romanesque, there was a remarkable revival of art and especially architecture. In the words of a contemporary, it was as if the whole earth had cast off her old age and was clothing herself everywhere in a white garment of churches. Two of the most powerful forces molding the development of romanesque art and architecture were pilgrimage and the monastic movement. The Romanesque Church here at vezelay in france embodies both Benedictine Monastery and starting point on the