... from the Danes returned and repaired the ruined church, but the monastery never recovered from the disaster until King Edgar made it a Benedictine foundation in the tenth century with the advice and assistance of Bishop Ethelwold. (Stewart n.d., 7) It was the close collaboration between Ethelwold and Abbot Byrhtnoth that gives the refoundation of Ely its medieval character. Byrhtnoth undertook the new building work necessary for the purposes of the new community, tending to the shrine of Etheldreda and her sister and developing the resources of the ... also evokes the shape of the Churc...

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