Fall Asleep to the Life of Thomas Aquinas, the Quiet Giant of the Middle Ages | Full Documentary

He was so large and so quiet that his fellow students called him the dumb ox. His teacher said that one day that ox would bellow so loudly the whole world would hear it. He wrote millions of words about God, reason and happiness, and then, one December morning, he put down his pen and said that all of it was like straw. In this calm, full-length Thomas Aquinas documentary for sleep, follow his life from a castle on a rock above the valley of Aquino to the abbey of Monte Cassino, the young university of Naples, a white Dominican habit and a year shut in his family's tower, the schools of Cologne with Albert the Great, the lecture halls of Paris, the papal court at Orvieto, the convent of Santa Sabina in Rome where the Summa began, a dinner with King Louis of France — and a last quiet journey to the abbey of Fossanova. Along the way, his gentle remedies for sorrow: tears, the company of friends, the contemplation of truth, a warm bath, and sleep. The story is drawn from his own writings, the early Lives by William of Tocco and Bernard Gui, the canonisation records, and the standard modern biographies. Where a tale is only a legend, the narration says so. Perfect for lovers of philosophy, theology, medieval history, the Summa Theologica, Saint Augustine, Aristotle, history for sleep, and relaxing documentaries to fall asleep to. Chapters 0:00:00 Welcome 0:08:00 The Castle on the Rock 0:15:56 Monte Cassino 0:24:04 Naples 0:32:28 The White Habit 0:40:02 The Tower 0:47:58 The Dumb Ox 0:56:08 Master in Paris 1:04:04 The Pope's City 1:11:44 The Summa 1:20:03 Remedies for Sorrow 1:27:57 That Settles the Manichees 1:36:27 Straw 1:44:37 The Road to Lyon 1:51:54 The Angelic Doctor If these quiet evenings are a comfort to you, you are welcome to subscribe, and to tell us in the comments where you are listening from and whose life you would like to hear next. #thomasaquinas #philosophy #historyforsleep #biographyforsleep #sleepdocumentary #middleages