A short history of England . y was second only tothat of the kings and great ealdormen. 60. Dunstan. —The most conspicuous churchman of this periodwas Dunstan, the son of a West Saxon thegn, who was educated atthe monastery of Glastonbury, to which learned monks from Ire-land often came, and at the kings court at Winchester. Helived to become successively an abbot, a bishop, and archbishopof Canterbury. During the reigns of Edgar and his immediatesuccessors, from about 957 to 988, Dunstan was the principaladviser of the king and in many ways the real ruler of the king-dom. From his time forwar
A short history of England . y was second only tothat of the kings and great ealdormen. 60. Dunstan. —The most conspicuous churchman of this periodwas Dunstan, the son of a West Saxon thegn, who was educated atthe monastery of Glastonbury, to which learned monks from Ire-land often came, and at the kings court at Winchester. Helived to become successively an abbot, a bishop, and archbishopof Canterbury. During the reigns of Edgar and his immediatesuccessors, from about 957 to 988, Dunstan was the principaladviser of the king and in many ways the real ruler of the king-dom. From his time forward the archbishop of Canterbury cameto have an almost invariably recognized right and duty to be theprincipal adviser of the king. Dunstan was a witty, eloquentman, a good musician, mechanic and artist, and the shrewdeststatesman of the time. He made Glastonbury, of which whilestill a very young man he became abbot, a prosperous and orderlymonastery, with a famous school library. From Glastonbury as a LATER SAXON ENGLAND 77. Some of the Principal Early Monastic Houses center many monks went out to build again the old monasteriesand to organize new ones. Dunstan was untiring in his effortsto obtain grants of land and privileges from the king for these 78 A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND monasteries and bishoprics, and at the same time to see that thereligious bodies kept themselves in order. At least eighteenabbeys were established directly or indirectly by his whole monastic revival which was such a marked feature ofthe tenth century owed much to Dunstan. After his death Dun-stan became a popular hero and saint, legendary accounts of hislife were written, and for centuries afterwards numberless talesabout him were told among the people. 61. Political Organization.—The form of government also hadby this time become definitely established. The king was electedto the throne by the nobles and great churchmen of the the form of election was always gone th
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