This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...thereby asserting the claims to imperial power made by the West Saxon kings, continued in his government the policy of his predecessors, ruling Northumbria through an Englishman, Oswulf, who received the title of Earl--the etymological equivalent of the Danish word Jarl, but having the same meaning as the older term ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...thereby asserting the claims to imperial power made by the West Saxon kings, continued in his government the policy of his predecessors, ruling Northumbria through an Englishman, Oswulf, who received the title of Earl--the etymological equivalent of the Danish word Jarl, but having the same meaning as the older term "ealdorman." Eadred's uneventful reign came to an end in 955: it was marked by little of note save the rise of Dunstan, who was to play a leading part for the next thirty years. CHAPTER VII. THE TIMES OF EADGAR, 955--975. Eadwig, the next occupant of the throne, was only fifteen years old at his accession (955), and his short reign was marked by a serious conflict with the two Eadwig (g55) leaders of the church, Archbishop Odo and and the Dunstan, abbot of Glastonbury, as to whether churchhis marriage with a cousin, who came within the degrees of consanguinity which the church prohibited, was a valid one. Both archbishop and abbot, in this attitude of hostility, represented the harsher side of a great reform movement, which originated from the famous monastery of Cluny in Burgundy, and thence spread over the western church in the tenth century. In itself primarily a monastic revival, it took the form of enforcing celi-Reform movebacy among the clergy, and more generally of ment in the making the church, through the Regulars (as churchthe monks were called in distinction to the Seculars or parish clergy), a more efficient agent for upholding morality in society. Dunstan was even a more remarkable man than Odo. When created abbot of Glastonbury by Edmund, he had succeeded in establishing in his monastery a great school, which almost served as a university for England. But he was much more than an energetic 58 THE UNITY OF ENGLAND. abbot;...
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