Events Tagged: "Dunstan"

Dunstan becomes Archbishop of Canterbury - reforms English church, advises kings, promotes learning

Benedictine Reform begins - Dunstan as Archbishop, backed by Edgar, starts replacing secular clergy with monks

Edward the Martyr backs monks despite opposition - teenage king supports Dunstan and Aethelwold against powerful nobles

Aethelred reconciles with Dunstan - performs penance for brother's murder, restores some monastic privileges

Death of St. Dunstan - dies after seeing vision of angels, Ascension Day, greatest Anglo-Saxon churchman