Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries - Season 1 Episode 2 From the Vikings to the 15th Century
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
Year: 2015
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: BBC Four
Director:
Cast: Janina Ramirez
Crew: Geoff Price (Sound Recordist), Nicholas Kent (Executive Producer), Kathryn Ellinger (Producer's Assistant), Eleanor Keddie (Production Manager), Annabel Lee (Head of Production), Mark Bell (Executive Producer)
First Air Date: Feb 19, 2015
Last Air date: Mar 05, 2015
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 3 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 0.2202
Language: English
Keyword : religion, british history
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