Synopsis
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.
- Programme: Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
- Episode: 2
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2015
- Religious Education | Christianity | Practices | The role of the church
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Episode 1 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Episode 1 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez begins her series by exploring how monasteries evolved from a cult of isolation and sel...
Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez discovers how the immensely rich and powerful monasteries that had dominated British so...
Episode 1 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Episode 1 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez begins her series by exploring how monasteries evolved from a cult of isolation and sel...
Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez discovers how the immensely rich and powerful monasteries that had dominated British so...
Episode 1 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Episode 1 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez begins her series by exploring how monasteries evolved from a cult of isolation and sel...
Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez discovers how the immensely rich and powerful monasteries that had dominated British so...
Episode 1 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Episode 1 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez begins her series by exploring how monasteries evolved from a cult of isolation and sel...
Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez discovers how the immensely rich and powerful monasteries that had dominated British so...
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