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Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries

Episode 2

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Janina Ramirez looks at how monasteries transformed society and rose to a position of immense power, only for sin and corruption to lead to collapse as the medieval period ended. Show more

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