In the days of Henry VIII, eminent Scottish historian John Major looked
back to the reign of Richard the Lionheart and sketched the character of legendary outlaw Robin Hood.
After the death of King Edgar, powerful court factions struggled for power by
hiding behind his two sons, twelve-year-old Edward and his younger step-brother Ethelred.
In 978, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dunstan, was being battered in a stormy meeting
when he — along with England’s rich monastic heritage — had a miraculous escape.