Subject: monachus monk
Culture: western European
Setting: Catholic monasticism, Europe 11-13thc
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston *
"William Hamilton English, 1751-1801 Edwy and Elgiva: A Scene from Saxon History 1793 Oil on canvas ...
The young 10th-century English king Edwy married his cousin Elgiva, a marriage opposed by ecclesiastical authorities.
In this work painted to illustrate David Hume's The History of England, Dunstan, a powerful Benedictine monk and future saint,
and Archbishop Odo of Canterbury burst into the queen's apartment, accuse the king of lasciviousness,
and drag him back to his coronation banquet."
