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A Strange Landscape - Episode 5 The Hammer of the World. (1996x11)

Air date: May 05, 1996

A five part series examining the medieval mind through stories from the Middle Ages. Dante’s Divine Comedy is the most celebrated of Middle Ages poetry. In this fifth and final Episode of the Strange Landscape series, the Divine Comedy is brought to life from across the whole universe, the depths of Hell, the mountains of Purgatory and into Paradise itself. Interspersed with the poem is a look at Dante’s own life; unrequited love, politics, exile. An evocation of Middle Ages religious and scientific beliefs seen through the artists’ eyes.