In the last several episodes we’ve been speaking about religion. We’ve spoken about the paganism that existed on the island, the christians that lived on the island, the reasons why individuals and rulers might want to convert, and of course we’ve spoken about what the church in Rome was up to and what their plans were.
So we know that the Church wanted to extend its control over Britain, and that now it felt it had a good opportunity to do so since they had an opening with the most powerful ki...
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