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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Paul Thorne.

Can you learn about the medieval mindset by spending time with modern monks?

Today's guest, Dr Benjamin Pohl, has done exactly that in the course of his research into medieval abbots and their role in writing history. He spoke to our content director, Dave Musgrove, to explain more.

Today I'm talking to Dr. Benjamin Paul, Senior Lecter in medieval history at the University of Bristol.

Ben, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Well, no, at all. Thank you for having me.

Now, you've been working on a research project, which is shortly going to see the publication of a book,

medieval abbots and the writing of history. It's all about how and why medieval monks and specifically

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