St Dunstan and politics
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Another legend from St Dunstan's vita recounts his political run-ins with temporal powers - the king, no less. And indeed the temporal power of the medieval Archbishops of Canterbury was not a lot less than that of the king, and the English monarchy has a strong spiritual element to this day.
Stories of St Dunstan, 5: Dunstan's Dream by Dr Eleanor Parker, A Clerk of Oxford blog
image: London, British Library Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii, f. 2v. Miniature of St Dunstan, King Edgar, and St Æthelwold, from the Regularis Concordia, England (Canterbury?), mid-11th century (cropped). See the full image with Andrew Dunning's article "An Anglo-Saxon ‘Renaissance Man’: St Dunstan", on the British Library's Medieval Manuscripts blog. https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/05/st-dunstan.html