How Benedict Biscop brought Byzantium to Britain

Benedict Biscop, an English abbot from Monkwearmouth near Sunderland, went to Rome in 679, and brought back with him music, pictures and even the city’s most prestigious choirmaster. As it happened, the new Pope was Greek, and for a time Monkwearmouth was filled with the colourful sights and sounds of the East.

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