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.

Saint Alcuin ( Alcuin of York ) is considered as a saint by all the main branches of Christianity: Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

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.

The young Alcuin came to the cathedral church of York during the golden age of Archbishop Ecgbert and Northumbrian King Eadberht.

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.

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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 ).

Even some contemporaries found the methods employed to win over the Saxons wanting, as this excerpt from a letter of Alcuin of York to his friend Meginfrid, written in 796, shows:

" Never before has such an atrocity been seen ," declared the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin of York.

" Never before has such an atrocity been seen ," declared the Northumbrian scholar, Alcuin of York.

* May 19 – Alcuin of York, bishop of Tours, advisor to Charlemagne

* Charlemagne summons the monk and scholar Alcuin of York to head the palace school at Aachen in order to inspire the revival of education in Europe.

Charlemagne, advised by Peter of Pisa and Alcuin of York, attracted the scholars of England and Ireland, and by decree in AD 787 established schools in every abbey in his empire.

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.

Lynne Truss attributes an early form of the modern question mark in western language to Alcuin of York.

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 ).

Theodulf had been in friendly competition over the standardization of the Vulgate with the chief among the Charlemagne's scholars, Alcuin of York.

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.

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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.

Louis the Pious, Charlemagne's successor, it is reported treated the Saxons more as Alcuin would have wished, and as a consequence they were faithful subjects.

Alcuin wrote to a Mercian nobleman to ask him to greet Coenwulf peaceably " if it is possible to do so ", implying uncertainty about Coenwulf's policy towards the Carolingians.

One reason for his resignation to be crowned with the Holy Crown of Hungary might have been, that Alcuin had written in a letter to Charlemagne in 798: " And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

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

He is described by early writers such as Bede, Alcuin and Stephen of Ripon as a man of great learning, and some of his works, as well as letters written to him, survive.

There is an implausable introductory account by Alcuin of his discovery of the manuscript in Persia and its history since the time of Jasher, and an equally unlikely commendation by Wycliffe the pre-Reformation bible-translator.

The main front of the school faces along Bootham ; this is the oldest part of the site and comprises the Memorial Hall, Alcuin Library and Chapel, as well as dining facilities.

The name of the Gothic letter is recorded by Alcuin in Codex Vindobonensis 795 as uuaer.

Æthelbert, was the teacher and intimate friend of Alcuin, whose poem on the saints and prelates of the Church of York, De Sanctis et Pontificibus Ecclesiæ Eboracensis, is the principal source of information concerning Æthelbert's life.

His great, great nephew Joshua Allen is currently studying at the University of York but is a member of Alcuin College.

Another early reference to the expression is in a letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne in 798, although it is believed to have been in earlier use.

The poem is based, not directly on the New Testament, but on the pseudo-Tatian's Gospel harmony, and it demonstrates the author's acquaintance with the commentaries of Alcuin, Bede, and Rabanus Maurus.

Alcuin College is a college of the University of York.

Sometimes referred to as the " Ensuite-Elite ", Alcuin is perhaps best known for the en-suite bathrooms that come as standard with every room and the general quality of the rooms, most of which were recently built.

Alcuin is generally considered to be the " posh " part of the university, rivalled perhaps by James College, which lacks many facilities considered essential to university life ( mainly, a bar ).

When her bodyguard is killed in an incident involving Alcuin nó Delaunay and the political intrigues of the Stregazza family, Delaunay contracts the Cassiline Joscelin Verreuil to protect his charges.

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.

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.

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 ).