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Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries

Episode 1

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Dr Janina Ramirez begins her series by exploring how monasteries evolved from a cult of isolation and self-deprivation into powerhouses of Anglo-Saxon art, industry and learning. Show more

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