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    Alcuin of York (/ˈælkwɪn/; Latin: Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; c. 735 – 19 May 804) – also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin – was a scholar, clergyman...
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    court, notably Alcuin of York. Charlemagne's Admonitio generalis (789) and Epistola de litteris colendis served as manifestos. Alcuin wrote on subjects...
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    order to eliminate dynastic rivals. According to a contemporary letter from Alcuin of York, an English deacon and scholar who spent over a decade at Charlemagne's...
  • Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher) (category Works attributed to Alcuin)
    eighth-century cleric Alcuin could not have produced a translation in the English of the King James Bible. There is an introductory account by Alcuin of his discovery...
  • Alcuin Schulten (born 1972) is a Dutch former figure skater. He competed for the Netherlands in men's singles and in pair skating with his sister Jeltje...
  • Alcuin Henry Deutsch (February 13, 1877 – May 12, 1951) was an abbot of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. He was born to German parents in Valla...
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    Peoples. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 978-0816049646. Alcuin (1941). The Rhetoric of Alcuin and Charlemagne: A Translation, with an Introduction, the...
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    A significant corpus of letters dates from the period, especially from Alcuin, an English deacon and scholar who spent over a decade at Charlemagne's...
  • Dictionary of National Biography Kirby Earliest English Kings pp. 127–129 Levinson England and the Continent p. 153 Duckett Alcuin pp. 19–22 Hindley Brief...
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    Sean Miller. Retrieved 8 August 2007. P. Wormald, "The Age of Offa and Alcuin", p. 128, in Campbell et al., The Anglo-Saxons. "Manuscript C: Cotton Tiberius...
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    "What is a herb?" "The friend of physicians and the praise of cooks." --Alcuin and his student Charlemagne In botany, the term herb refers to a herbaceous...
  • II was also accused by Alcuin of seizing others' lands; Rollason, "Eardwulf", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Kirby, Earliest English...
  • presumably written by Alcuin of York, not by Charlemagne himself. Alcuin was Charlemagne's teacher in rhetoric, logic, and astronomy. Alcuin wrote several theological...
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    Echternach (698), founded at a villa granted him by a daughter of Dagobert II. Alcuin, in his Life of Willibrord states the Willibrord's successor, Aldberct,...
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    legacy of earlier kings including Offa, clerical writers including Bede, and Alcuin and various participants in the Carolingian Renaissance. This was not a...
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    Church by James Hannam (in German) ALCUIN – Regensburger Infothek der Scholastik – Huge database with information on biography, text chronology, editions....
  • and virtuous woman; at court, she was even appreciated by his children. Alcuin praises Luitgarde's love of letters: of her he says, “The queen loves to...
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    England. Alcuin.VersEubor 1023-4 Alcuin.VitWillibrPr 4. Mayr-Harting, Henry. "Ecgberht (639–729)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 Costambeys...
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    competition for the text, won by Alcuin; a competing entry by Theodulf of Orléans also survives.: 347–351  Alcuin's text, in which Charlemagne speaks...
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    building of the University of York. The southern side of the howe is part of Alcuin College of the University of York. Its imposing water tower is visible from...
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