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Alcuin

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Al·cuin  (lkwn) also Al·bi·nus (l-bns) 735?-804.
Anglo-Saxon prelate and scholar who was a leader in the revival of learning in medieval Europe.
Alcuin [ˈælkwɪn], Albinus
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(Biographies / Alcuin (735-804) M, English, MISC: scholar, RELIGION: theologian) 735-804 ad, English scholar and theologian; friend and adviser of Charlemagne
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This theme was adopted by later monastic writers such as Alcuin of York, Charlemagne's educational reformer, who had inscribed over the doorway of the scriptorium at Fulda, "It is more meritorious to copy books than to tend the vines" (Leclerq 123).
Medieval literacy in the writing center by LeCluyse, Christopher / Writing Lab Newsletter
Klaus Gamber of the Institute of Liturgical Science at Regensburg, Australian liturgical historian Alcuin Reid, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and the late Victor Turner, a Scottish-born cultural anthropologist who taught for many years in the United States, he presents a broad picture.
Righting the rites by Ferrone, Rita / Commonweal
Starting with Cicero's definition of philosophy as something detached from reality, which was largely misunderstood by later generations, d'Onofrio covers most of the great thinkers of Christian Europe: Plotinus, John Scotus Eriugena, Boethius, Augustine, Alcuin, Lanfranc, Peter Damian, Peter Abelard, Anselm of Canterbury, Nicholas of Cusa and many, many more.
Vera philosophia; studies in late antique, early medieval, and ... by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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