Rabanus Maurus ( c 780 – 856 ) ( left ), supported by Alcuin ( c 735 – 804 ) ( middle ), presents his work to Otgar of Mainz, from a Carolingian Manuscript, c840.

Alcuin spoke Old English ( or Old Anglish ), which, coupled with the printer's seeming anti-Christian sentiments, immediately raised suspicions that it was a fraud-confirmed in the printer's subsequent trial and sentence to gaol.

The new minuscule was disseminated first from Aachen, of which the Ada Gospels provide classic models, and later from the influential scriptorium at Marmoutier Abbey ( Tours ), where Alcuin withdrew from court service as an abbot in 796 and restructured the scriptorium.

Based on Merovingian ad hoc arrangements, using the form missus regis ( the " king's envoy ") and sending a layman and an ecclesiastic in pairs, the use of missi dominici was fully exploited by Charlemagne ( ruling 768 — 814 ), who made them a regular part of his administration, " a highly intelligent and plausible innovation in Carolingian government ", Norman F. Cantor observes, " and a tribute to the administrative skill of the ecclesiastics, such as Alcuin and Einhard ".

During the novelistic phase that lasts from 1798 until late 1801, Brown published the Wollstonecraftian-feminist dialog Alcuin ( 1798 ), and seven subsequent novels.

The Eastern Orthodox theologian Romanides states that it was not until the rise of Charlemagne and his successors, and the influence of the Palatine School established by the Englishman Alcuin ( 735 – 804 ), that the Church of Rome became almost exclusively committed to Augustinian theology.

An early headmaster Alcuin ( Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus ), went on to be Chancellor to the Emperor Charlemagne, and founded several of the earliest schools in mainland Europe.

* Alcuin ( Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus ), former Head Master, went on to be Chancellor to the Emperor Charlemagne.

* Alcuin ( Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus ), former Head Master, went on to be Chancellor to the Emperor Charlemagne.

The letters of the Gothic alphabet, however, as given by the Alcuin manuscript ( ninth century ), are obviously related to the names of the Futhark.

According to a 9th-century manuscript of Alcuin ( Codex Vindobonensis 795 ), written in Britain, the letters

Charlemagne took a serious interest in scholarship, promoting the liberal arts at the court, ordering that his children and grandchildren be well-educated, and even studying himself under the tutelage of Paul the Deacon, from whom he learned grammar, Alcuin, with whom he studied rhetoric, dialect and astronomy ( he was particularly interested in the movements of the stars ), and Einhard, who assisted him in his studies of arithmetic.

The 9th century, especially the latter half, has very few major survivals made in England, but was a period when Insular and Anglo-Saxon influence on Carolingian manuscripts was at its height, from scriptoria such as those at the Anglo-Saxon mission's foundation at Echternach Abbey ( though the important Echternach Gospels were created in Northumbria ), and the major monastery at Tours, where Alcuin of York was followed by another Anglo-Saxon abbot, between them covering the period from 796 to 834.

In the words of Philip Hofer ( 1941, p. 2 ), in the latter portion of the Seventh century CE ' English calligraphy became important and influential on the course of writing styles for the first time ' ( often credited in part to Alcuin of York ).

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

Alcuin was born in Northumbria, presumably sometime in the 740s.

In common hagiographical fashion, the Vita Alcuini asserts that Alcuin was ' of noble English stock ,' and this statement has usually been accepted by scholars.

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.

Egbert was devoted to Alcuin, who thrived under his tutelage.

It was in York that Alcuin formed his love of classical poetry, though he was sometimes troubled by the fact that it was written by non-Christians.

He was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school in Aquae Grani ( Aachen ) under Alcuin.

In Spain, Adoptionism was opposed by Beatus of Liebana, and in the Carolingian territories, the Adoptionist position was condemned by Pope Hadrian I, Alcuin of York, Agobard, and officially in Carolingian territory by the Council of Frankfurt ( 794 ).

Saint Jerome and his colleagues, who produced the Vulgate translation of the Bible into Latin, developed an early system ( circa 400 AD ); this was considerably improved on by Alcuin.

In the 9th century, Tours was at the heart of the Carolingian Rebirth, in particular because of Alcuin abbot of Marmoutier.

At the same time, Beatus strengthened the links between Asturias, Rome, and the Carolingian Empire, and was supported in his theological struggle by the Pope and by his friend Alcuin of York, an Anglo-Saxon scholar who had settled among the Carolingian court in Aachen.

Alcuin of York was commissioned by Charlemagne to create this new handwriting, which he did in collaboration with other scribes and based on the tradition of other Roman handwriting.

The diocese was an old one, and traditions of the early Christian church lingered ; Felix of Urgel's tendencies towards the heretical position of adoptionism was attacked by Alcuin of York in Contra Felicem ( Runciman, 1947 ).

Alcuin was a Northumbrian monk and deacon who served as head of the Palace School from 782 to 796, except for the years 790 to 793 when he returned to England.

Among those to follow Alcuin across the Channel to the Frankish court was Joseph Scottus, an Irishman who left some original biblical commentary and acrostic experiments.

Alcuin led this effort and was responsible for the writing of textbooks, creation of word lists, and establishing the trivium and quadrivium as the basis for education.

According to a contemporary letter from Alcuin of York, an English deacon and scholar who spent over a decade at Charlemagne's court as one of his chief advisors, " the vengeance of the blood shed by the father has reached the son "; and Alcuin adds " This was not a strengthening of the kingdom, but its ruin.

The king and nobles of the district endowed him with estates until he was at last able to build a church, over which Alcuin afterwards ruled.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

The concept is one of the lasting legacies of the Carolingian Renaissance: " Europa " often figures in the letters of Charlemagne's cultural minister, Alcuin.

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 court as one of his chief advisors, and corresponded with kings, nobles and ecclesiastics throughout England.

Alcuin certainly held negative views of Coenwulf, regarding him as a tyrant, and criticizing him for putting aside one wife and taking another.

Alcuin probably made use of an older one written by a British monk, which is now lost.

Disapproving references to such uses can be found in the writings of Saints Jerome and Eligius, and Alcuin, but they are accepted by John Chrysostom, Augustine, who " expresses qualified approval " of using manuscripts as a cure for headaches, and Gregory the Great, who sent one to Queen Theodelinda for her son.

According to a contemporary letter from Alcuin of York, an English deacon and scholar who spent over a decade at Charlemagne's court as one of his chief advisors:

Music as an intellectual discipline had only been revived in the late 8th century by Alcuin, as part of a campaign to revive all of the liberal arts of antiquity, and which was one of the most significant features of the Carolingian Renaissance.

Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.