Civilisation: A Personal View

By Kenneth Clark, published by Harper & Row, 1969, 359 pages including index. Illustrated with black and white and color plates (286 illustrations, 48 in color). Kenneth Clark takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day (1969). He concentrates on crucial civilization episodes, from Iona in the 9th century to France in the 12th, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland, and America.