Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries - Season 1 Episode 1 Pagans to Vikings

Name: Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Genre: Documentary
Released: 05 Mar 2015
Rating: 8.00
Cast: Janina Ramirez

2015-03-05 United Kingdom 48 minutes.

8.00 1 votes

Documentary religion british history

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Season - Episode

1 Season 1 Feb 19, 2015

1 - 1

Pagans to Vikings Feb 19, 2015
1 - 2

From the Vikings to the 15th Century Feb 26, 2015
1 - 3

Secular Society Mar 05, 2015

Overview

Dr Janina Ramirez explores how monasteries evolved from a cult of extreme isolation and self-deprivation into powerhouses of Anglo-Saxon art, industry and learning. Janina begins her journey on the desolate rock of Skellig St Michael off the east coast of Ireland, home to the oldest surviving monastery in the British Isles. Monasteries such as Lindisfarne and Whitby became beacons of civilisation and literature in the barbaric Anglo-Saxon world, creating wondrous works of art including the Lindisfarne Gospels and St Cuthbert's pectoral cross. They transform the culture and landscape of England, until they too were destroyed by a new wave of barbarian invaders

Year 2015

Studio BBC Four

Director

Crew Eleanor Keddie (Production Manager), Mark Bell (Executive Producer), Susan Jones (Executive Producer), Annabel Lee (Head of Production), Geoff Price (Sound Recordist), Nicholas Kent (Executive Producer)

Popularity 0.5001

Language English