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Alcuin

(ca. 732/735–804). B. Northumbria, probably in or near York, Yorkshire, Eng.; educ. in cathedral school of York; headmaster of the school after 778; after 781 head of a court school of Charlemagne*; abbot Tours 796; rev. the Vulgate; tried to convert heathen by the Gospel, not force; opposed adoptionism.* Taught Liudger* and Rabanus* Maurus.

MPL 100–101; E. S. Duckett, Alcuin, Friend of Charlemagne (New York, 1951); L. Wallach, Alcuin and Charlemagne (Ithaca, New York, 1959); C. J. B. Gaskoin, Alcuin: His Life and Work (New York, 1966); A. F. West, Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools (Westport, Connecticut, 1969); W. Heil, Alkuinstudien I (Düsseldorf, 1970).


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