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Alcuin

Alcuin (c. 735–804) was an Anglo-Saxon scholar and teacher who became a leading architect of the Carolingian Renaissance as adviser to Charlemagne. He wrote influential educational treatises on grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic, produced biblical exegesis and liturgical texts, and composed letters and poetry. Through his work at the palace school and monastic schools, he helped standardize Latin learning and curricula in medieval Europe.

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Christianity Two Alcuin letter-books – Alcuin Alcuin

A modern Latin edition of two collections of Alcuin's correspondence preserved in British Museum MS Cotton Vespasian A…

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Christianity Son well-beloved – Alcuin Alcuin

English translations of six Latin Christian poems by Alcuin, the Anglo-Saxon scholar at Charlemagne's court, rendered by the…

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Christian Theology Commentary on the Song of Songs – Alcuin Alcuin

Alcuin's Latin commentary on the Song of Songs gathers patristic interpretation into a single practical compendium of inherited…

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History The bishops, kings, and saints of York – Alcuin Alcuin

Alcuin's Latin hexameter poem chronicles the church of York, its bishops, Northumbrian kings, and saints.

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History Beati Flacci Albini seu Alcuini abbatis, Caroli Magni Regis ac Imperatoris, magistri opera – Alcuin Alcuin

A two-volume Latin collection of Alcuin's works, edited by Frobenius Forster, gathering the writings of Charlemagne's scholarly master.

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Biography Alcuin of York, c. A.D. 732 to 804 – Alcuin Alcuin

Stephen Allott presents the life and letters of Alcuin of York, the Anglo-Saxon scholar who shaped learning at…

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Christian Theology Alcuini sive Albini Epistolae – Alcuin Alcuin

A critical edition of the Latin letters of Alcuin of York, adviser to Charlemagne and a central figure…

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Christian Theology Explanatio super Ecclesiasten (CLM 14614) – Alcuin Alcuin

A critical edition of a Carolingian Latin epitome of Alcuin of York's commentary on Ecclesiastes, preserved in Munich,…

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Christianity Codex A M 619 quarto – Alcuin Alcuin

A philological study of the Old Norwegian Homily Book, AM 619 quarto, with its sermons, Saint Olaf miracles,…

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History B. FLacci Albini, sive Alchvvini, abbatis, Karoli Magni regis, ac imperatoris – Alcuin Alcuin

A Latin folio of Alcuin's collected works, edited by André Du Chesne, including many pieces printed for the…

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History Beati Flacci Albini seu Alcuini … – Alcuin Alcuin

A two-volume Latin folio collecting Alcuin of York's letters, theological treatises, and biblical commentaries.

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Christian Theology Albini diaconi anglici In D. Ioannis Euangelion commentariorum libri septem, christiana fruge refertissimi – Alcuin Alcuin

This Latin commentary on John’s Gospel in seven books offers traditional ecclesiastical exposition defending orthodox Christology.

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Christian Theology D. Albini Caroli illius Magni olim praeceptoris, In Genesim quaestiones – Alcuin Alcuin

Alcuin's Latin question-and-answer commentary on Genesis explains the literal, allegorical, and moral sense of the book's key passages.

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Christianity Albini siue Alcuini Parisiensis Academiae conditoris In septem Psalmos Poenitentiales & CXVIII. Psalmu[m], & in Cantica Graduum pia ac breuis expositio – Alcuin Alcuin

A concise Latin commentary attributed to Alcuin explaining the seven penitential psalms, Psalm 118, and the Songs of…

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Christian Theology Homilie doctoru[m] ecclesiasticoru[m] in euangelia dominicalia ac temporanea – Alcuin Alcuin

A Carolingian homiliary of model sermons on the Sunday and feast-day Gospels, attributed to Alcuin of York for…

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Other Works by Alcuin

Scholastic dialogue (1968)