Overlooking University Road was Alcuin's 1950s American theme bar-the only themed college bar on campus.

In his Life of St Willibrord, Alcuin writes that Wilgils, called a paterfamilias, had founded an oratory and church at the mouth of the Humber, which had fallen into Alcuin's possession by inheritance.

According to Alcuin's Life of St. Willebrord, the saint visited an island between Frisia and Denmark that was sacred to Fosite and was called Fositesland after the god worshipped there.

* Alcuin's Life of St. Willibrord, translated in C. H. Talbot, " The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany " ( London and New York, 1954 ), especially pp. 9 – 10.

In the early 13th century, when the growth of communities of scholars ( universities ) in Paris and other major cities led to an expansion and streamlining of the book-production trade, punctuation was rationalised by assigning Alcuin's stroke-over-dot specifically to interrogatives ; by this time the stroke was more sharply curved and can easily be recognised as the modern question-mark.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

If so, Alcuin's origins may lie in the southern part of what was formerly known as Deira.

The surviving sources do not record whether Ecgfrith died of natural causes or was assassinated, though Alcuin's letter seems to imply the latter.

A connection between Guy and Guido, count of Tours ( flourished about 800 ) was made when Alcuin's advice to the count, Liber ad Guidonem, was transferred to the English hero in the Speculum Gy de Warewyke ( c. 1327 ), edited for the Early English Text Society by Georgiana Lea Morrill Morrill, 1898.

Moreover the word occurs more than once in Alcuin's correspondence, apparently as denoting a garment for everyday wear.

The majority of details on Alcuin's life come from his letters and poems.

There are also autobiographical sections in Alcuin's poem on York and in the Vita Alcuini, a Life written for him at Ferrières in the 820s, possibly based in part on the memories of Sigwulf, one of Alcuin's pupils.

Eardwulf of Northumbria had, like Coenwulf, gained his throne in 796: Alcuin's meaning is not clear, but it may be that he intended it as a slur on Eardwulf or Coenwulf or on both.

Alcuin's affectionate eulogy praised his erudition in grammar, rhetoric, law, poetry, astronomy, natural history, and Scripture, and his stern but supportive nature.

It is also used as a venue for Alcuin's Late License Events, with three events held termly.

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