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Alcuin in Germany - English
URL: http://www.islandnet.com/~edonon/alcuin-g.htm

Alcuin came to Charlemagne's court to bring the very best of English learning to a country where most knowledge was still retained in oral form. As in York, there was no regular Benedictine monastery in Aachen and therefore the large scriptorium was attached to the Palatine School of Charlemagne. The Benedictine monks who lived there were all linguists who worked with the grammarians to develop the German language. Already during the reign of Charles Martel and Pepin the Short a simple version of the Palace school had existed, but training had been restricted to court manners, procedures and protocol.

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Medieval Sourcebook: Alcuin: Life of Willbrord, c. 796 - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/Alcuin-willbrord.html

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The earliest Life of Willibrord, written, as Theofrid, Abbot of Echternach (1083­1100), tells us, by an unlearned Scot (i.e. an Irishman) in a rough and unpolished style, has disappeared, though its contents may be reconstructed from the biography composed by Alcuin, who probably used it as his source. Alcuin, the author of the present Life, was born in York in 735 and became the master of the school there in 778. Four years later he was appointed head of Charlemagne's school at Aix­la­Chapelle [Aachen] and became a leading member of that select circle who supported the emperor in his efforts to re­educate Europe. In 796 he was removed to Tours and died in 804.

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Poster of Alcuin - English
URL: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Posters2/Alcuin.html

Alcuin of York wrote elementary texts on arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.

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Alkuin (or Alcuin, circa 735-804) - English
URL: http://www.bu.edu/english/levine/alcend.htm

by Robert Levine, Boston University and Whitney Bolton, Rutgers University.

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Biography: Alcuin, Deacon, Scholar, and Abbot of Tours - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/05/20.html

Alcuin was an Englishman from York, born into a noble family about 730, and educated by a pupil of Bede. Having become a deacon, he was made head of the cathedral school at York aroung 770. In 781 he was asked by the Emperor Charlemagne to become his minister of education. He accepted, and established schools at many cathedrals and monasteries, and promoted learning in every way he could. In the preceding years of constant wars and invasions, many ancient writings had been lost.

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Alcuin - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts - English
URL: http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/Alcuin.html

The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews, published by The American Mathematical Society.

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Alcuin of York - Allchin Files - English
URL: http://allchin.org/alcuin.html

Probable origin of the Allchin family name comes from Alcuin of York.

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Alcuin of York - English
URL: http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Mayo/Towns/MayAbbey/HistMAbb/Alcuin.htm

Alcuin of York wrote letters to the monks of Mayo Abbey and was the chief architect of educational reform on the continent under Charlemagne.

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Alcuin - English
URL: http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Alcuin.htm

Biography and Readings for Alcuin, commemorated May 20, according to the Episcopal Church.

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Medieval Church.org.uk: Alcuin (c.740-804) - English
URL: http://www.medievalchurch.org.uk/p_alcuin.html

The ideal which forms the inspiration of Alcuin’s whole life is that of a Christian state in which every thing is pervaded by a religious spirit, and regulated by the laws of the church; and he looked with admiration and awe to the realization of this ideal, which the energy and success of Charlemagne seemed to promise. Theology he consequently considered as the principal element of education. His own theology is wholly positive, without originality, derived from the Fathers. He wrote both on dogmatics: De Fide Sanctae et Individuce Trinitatis; De Trinitate ad Fridigisum Quaestiones; Libellus de processione Spiritus Sancti, etc.

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Alcuin - English
URL: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons4_n2/alcuin.html

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Alcuin was the foremost scholar of the revival of learning known as the Carolingian Renaissance.

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Patron Saints Index: Blessed Alcuin - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta58.htm

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Patron Saint Index profile of Blessed Alcuin.

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Alcuin’s De Rhetorica - English
URL: http://freespace.virgin.net/angus.graham/Alcuin.htm

This text is taken from Karl Halm (1863), Rhetores Latini Minores, ex codicibus maximam partem primum adhibitis, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, pp. 523-550. Our text appears as section 16, ‘Disputatio de rhetorica et de virtutibus sapientissimi regis Karli et Albini magistri’, and Halm identifies three Munich manuscripts as providing his subsidia critica.

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The Alcuin Society - English
URL: http://www.alcuinsociety.com/

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The Alcuin Society is a voluntary association of people who care about the past, present and future of fine books. Founded in 1965, it is the only non-profit organization in Canada dedicated to the entire range of interests related to books and reading. These interests include authorship, publishing, book design and production, bookselling, book buying and collecting, printing, binding, papermaking, calligraphy and illustration.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alcuin - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01276a.htm

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Visit the New Advent website for the Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia and more.

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Alcuin of York - English
URL: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Alcuin.html

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Biography of Alcuin (735-804).

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Алкуин Флакк Альбин - Russian
URL: http://www.rubricon.ru/qe.asp?qtype=4&qall=0&aid={1BDFB1E7-99AE-431F-950C-D9BEC0

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(735-804) - англосаксонский учёный, приближённый императора Карла Великого. Писал трактаты и учебники. С 796 г. - аббат в аббатстве святого Мартина в Туре (Франция).

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Алкуин - Russian
URL: http://www.krotov.org/spravki/persons/15person/alkuin.html

Из "Библиологического словаря" священника Александра Меня.

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Алкуин (703-804) - Russian
URL: http://antology.rchgi.spb.ru/Alcuin/_autor_rus.html

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Биография, сочинения, библиография.

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