The golden age of the British monastery was during the medieval period, when monks transformed British society and rose to a position of immense power. Fighting back after centuries of defeat and neglect, a wave of new monasteries spread across the nation, with over 500 British monastic houses established by the 14th century. Far from the inward-looking recluses of legend, monks were exceptionally creative, and became pioneers in the fields of medicine, science, scholarship, industry, farming, art and music. They didn't turn their back on the medieval world, but helped transform it. Yet as the monasteries mingled with the world outside their cloisters they began to take on its corruption
| Title | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries - Season 1 Episode 2 : From the Vikings to the 15th Century |
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| First Air Date | 2015-02-19 |
| Last Air Date | 2015-03-05 |
| Number of Episodes | 3 |
| Number of Seasons | 1 |
| Genres | Documentary, |
| Networks | BBC Four, |
| Casts | Janina Ramirez |
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Episodes List
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Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries Season 1 :Episode 1 Pagans to Vikings Pagans to Vikings
2015-02-19Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a...
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Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries Season 1 :Episode 2 From the Vikings to the 15th Century From the Vikings to the 15th Century
2015-02-26Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a...
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Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries Season 1 :Episode 3 Secular Society Secular Society
2015-03-05Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a...
