English Benedictine Reform
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The English Benedictine Reform or Monastic Reform of the English church in the late tenth century was a religious and intellectual movement in the later Anglo-Saxon period. In the mid-tenth century al
Portrait of King Edgar in the charter of the New Minster, Winchester
King Edgar seated between Bishop Æthelwold and Archbishop Dunstan, from an eleventh-century manuscript of the Regularis Concordia
Initial letter "B" in the Ramsey Psalter, which was probably designed for the use of Archbishop Oswald
Folio 25r from the Benedictional of St Æthelwold, a miniature of the Baptism of Christ
Æthelred the Unready
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Æthelred II, known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from March 978 to December 1013 and again from February 1014 until his death. The epithet "Unready" or "Unræd" is a pun on his name
Charter S 876 of 4 June 993 in favour of Abingdon Abbey
Charter S 905 of Æthelred in 1002 granting land in Canterbury for seven pounds to a man also called Æthelred and his wife, with restoration to the Church on their deaths