Upon the ascension of Edgar to the Anglo-Saxon throne, he immediately sought to reform the English church with the assistance of St. Dunstan, the former bishop of London. He held this council to alter several policies regarding the governance of the English church, and to push the growing centralization of ecclesiastical power into the See of Canterbury. Edgar's reforms would have a long lasting impact on the Church of England, and to some degree, remain active to the current day.
During his tenure of the English church, king Egdar sought sweeping reforms to the bishoprics and royal monasteries under his dominion. What follows here in this work is a collection of documents from his reign interceding directly with the governance of the English church and the establishment of monastic communities, as well as correspondence between the king as his senior advisor, St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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