🎧 Anglo Saxons with Janina Ramirez
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 18m
Dr Janina Ramirez is Course Director for History of Art at the Department of Continuing Education, Oxford. An interdisciplinary art historian, known for her documentary work on BBC4, including most recently, ‘Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings’ and ‘Britain’s Most Fragile Treasure’.;Janina’s new book is entitled The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England.
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