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With that, here's another piece of the mosaic of the popes of Rome and Christian Church, and I will definitely be talking to you more soon.

I think there's quite a few fun things, but the one that perhaps particularly being based here in the UK that I like is to point out to people

that the cathedrals in England at present, all of the major cathedrals, none of them have

any pre-Norman fabric at all in terms of the buildings, yet the vast majority have at least

elements of Norman construction. Indeed, every cathedral and every major monastery in England

was rebuilt or relocated, sometimes both and sometimes more than once, within 50 years of the

Norman conquest in 1066, which is absolutely extraordinary. A building boom, a church building

boom like that was not seen anywhere else with that kind of short intensity in Europe at all.

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