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.

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.

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 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.

In the Life written by Alcuin are two texts about Willibrord and pagan places of worship.

When Alcuin twice observes about a casula which was sent him, that he meant to wear it always at Mass, we may probably infer that such garments at this date were not distinctively liturgical owing to anything in their material or construction, but that they were set aside for the use of the altar at the choice of the owner, who might equally well have used them as part of his ordinary attire.

A friend of Alcuin he was ordained after his education and, about the year 766, he went to Frisia, preaching at Dokkum and in Overijssel, to continue the missionary work of St. Boniface who had been martyred by the Frisians in 754.

Dying, Alcuin tells Phèdre to tell Ysandre what has happened, to trust Admiral Rousse and the remaining Trevalions, that Thelesis de Mornay knows about Alba, and that the important figure is the Dauphine, not Ganelon.

There are about 1600 student members ( mostly students at TU Delft ) who gather together on a daily or weekly basis at an old monastery named Alcuin, after the Irish builder and monk.

Little is known about his life except that he was a regular communicator with Alcuin of York ; it is in his letters to Alcuin that Higbald described in graphic detail the Viking raid on Lindisfarne on 8 January 793 in which many of his monks were killed.

In the ninth century Alcuin uses the word to designate an office abridged or simplified for the use of the laity.

Already in the 8th century Prudentius, bishop of Troyes, had in a Breviarium Psalterii made an abridgment of the Psalter for the laity, giving a few psalms for each day, and Alcuin had rendered a similar service by including a prayer for each day and some other prayers, but no lessons or homilies.

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

The Church of the Franks ( France ) accepted them during the late 8th century under the tutelage of Alcuin, after he arrived from Britain.

In the history of ideas the Carolingian Renaissance stands out as a period of intellectual and cultural revival in Europe occurring from the late eighth century, in the generation of Alcuin, to the 9th century, and the generation of Heiric of Auxerre, with the peak of the activities coordinated during the reigns of the Carolingian rulers Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.

The letter names are recorded in a 9th century manuscript of Alcuin ( Codex Vindobonensis 795 ).

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

Alcuin mentions several Latin and Greek classical authors, as well as the Fathers and other Christian writers that formed the 8th century canon.

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 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.

He studied there under Alcuin, who in recognition of his diligence and purity gave him the surname of Maurus, after the favourite disciple of Benedict, Saint Maurus.

Alcuin was Charlemagne's Latin secretary and an important writer in his own right ; his influence led to a rebirth of Latin literature and learning after the depressed period following the final disintegration of Roman authority in Western Europe.

The new Alcuin bar, B Henry's, was named after Brian Henry, a college porter of many years who had recently retired, and on opening was immensely popular despite its relatively distant location compared to the rest of campus.

Ludger accompanied him to be ordained into the diaconate ( as he duly was, by Ethelbert of York ) and to study under Alcuin, but after a year he returned to Utrecht.

Charlemagne actively sought to amass scholarly men around him and established a royal school led by the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin.

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

His father, Wilgils or St Hilgis, an Angle or, as Alcuin styles him, a Saxon, of Northumbria, withdrew from the world and constructed for himself a little oratory dedicated to Saint Andrew.

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.

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.

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 English monk Alcuin was invited to Charlemagne's court at Aachen, and brought with him the precise classical Latin education that was available in the monasteries of Northumbria.

Alcuin is also known for his activity in liturgical matters, and we owe certain liturgical compositions to him ; but there is no reason for considering him the author of this office ( see Cabrol in " Dict.

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.

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.

For many years Alcuin College was very much the outcast on the university campus, the only college physically separate from the others except for a bridge from the library, a narrow bridge from Langwith ( demolished over Easter 2008 ) and a walkway to the chemistry department.

These texts were not just copied but also known at the court of Charlemagne, since his historian, the bishop Einhard, asked for explanations of some technical terms at the visiting English churchman 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 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.

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

A significant corpus of letters dates from the period, especially from Alcuin, who corresponded with kings, nobles and ecclesiastics throughout England.

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 revolutionary character of the Carolingian reform cannot be over-emphasized ; efforts at taming the crabbed Merovingian and Germanic hands had been under way before Alcuin arrived at Aachen, where he was master from 782 to 796, with a two-year break.

800 charged Alcuin with a revision of the Latin Vulgate.

) treats of theology or mythology, and winds up with an account of the Holy Scriptures and of the Fathers, from Ignatius and Dionysius the Areopagite to Jerome and Gregory the Great, and even of later writers from Isidore and Bede, through Alcuin, Lanfranc and Anselm, down to Bernard of Clairvaux and the brethren of St Victor.

He corresponded with Alcuin, and took part in the Adoptionist controversy, criticizing the views of Felix of Urgel and Elipandus of Toledo.

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.

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.

As part of a wider programme of a campus-wide reduction in opening hours of all facilities, which included the partial closing of the Alcuin College bar B ' Henry's, and the total closure of Halifax College bar JJs ; Langwith College Bar was issued with a notice of closure by the University of York Commercial Services in early 2008.

For example, king Clovis I on his baptism day confessed having relationships with other men ; or Alcuin, an anglosaxon poet whose verses and letters are impregnated with homoerotism.

He was educated in the school of Alcuin, acquired much erudition, and corresponded with Rabanus Maurus.

Some time later he was granted an opportunity to continue his studies in the same school, when he developed a friendship with Alcuin which lasted throughout life.