Memorials of Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury

Dunstan was a prominent ecclesiastical figure in tenth-century England and – following his death and canonisation in 988 – the country's most popular saint for over a century; his fame was eventually eclipsed only by that of Thomas Becket. In life a close friend of King Edgar, he was influential as the king's advisor and became archbishop of Canterbury in 959. Published in 1874 as part of the Rolls Series, this work gathers together the lives, letters and other fragments of historical inter...