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BBC Four - In Search of Medieval Britain, Scotland

Alixe Bovey explores medieval Scotland, a nation so young it still had no capital.

Alixe Bovey recreates journeys through medieval Britain. She explores Scotland, a nation so young it still had no capital and where gangsters terrorised its border lands.

Medieval art historian, Dr Alixe Bovey, uses the oldest surviving route map of Britain to make a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages. She explores the most mysterious region on the whole map - Scotland, a nation so young it still had no capital, where wolves reigned over its highland wilderness and gangsters terrorised its border lands.

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Dr Alixe Bovey makes series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages.

Medieval art historian Dr Alixe Bovey uses the oldest surviving route map of Britain to make a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages.

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