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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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Pope Benedict is onto this, along with Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, and liturgical scholars such as Aidan Nichols, OP, Monsignor Peter Elliott, Stratford Caldecott of the Center for Faith and Culture in Oxford, and Alcuin Reid, OSB.
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Salting his book with quotes and bon mots from, among others, Thomas Merton, Henry David Thoreau, Dorothy Day, Alcuin, Sophocles Publius Sirius, Emily Dickinson, and Groucho Marx, Sullivan eschews a whimsical, half-baked approach to not being rich in favor of practical, hard-nosed advice for those seeking to ward off the infamy of unbridled prosperity.
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That imaginative chap Charlemagne (forward-looking Holy Roman Emperor) stirred things up in the 9th century when Alcuin of York came up with a system of positurae at the ends of sentences (including one of the earliest question marks), but to be honest western systems of punctuation were damned unsatisfactory for the next five hundred years until one man--one fabulous Venetian printer--finally wrestled with the issue and pinned it to the mat.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Medb / Reviewer's Bookwatch
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