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ALCUIN (730/40–804), also known as Albinus; educator, poet, theologian, and liturgist successively at York, the Carolingian court, and Saint-Martin's, Tours. The son of a Northumb...
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Alcuin
735-804
English educator and cleric, also known as Alcuin of York, who, in answering Charlemagne's call for a revival of learning, was instrumental in bringing about the Carolingian rena...
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The English churchman Alcuin of York (ca. 730-804) was an educator, statesman, and liturgist. In the total range of his talents he was unequaled by any other man of his time.Born in or near York, Alcu...
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Although Alcuin's importance as a central figure in the Carolingian Renaissance has never been seriously questioned, the quality of his literary production can be considered only part of the reason fo...
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In the following essay, West surveys Alcuin's didactic works.
Alcuin's writings have been preserved to us in tolerable completeness, and may be classified under a fourfold division. Firs...
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In the following essay, Scott credits Alcuin for helping shape the evolution toward a modern role for poetry, in which formal rhetoric is subordinated to a functional role within the structure of the ...
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In the following essay, Scott examines the symbolic meaning of the cuckoo in a poem by Alcuin, arguing that he used this central image as a means of sublimating the expressions of desire contained wit...
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In the following essay, Chase takes other scholars to task for projecting their own attitudes and interests onto those of Alcuin.
In recent years, a marked tendency towards deductive analysis has char...
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In the following essay, Chazelle outlines Alcuin's rejection of the theory of the atonement, which states that Christ's Passion was a ransom he paid to Satan in order to liberate mankind...
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In the following essay, Pucci analyzes Alcuin's use of Virgilian pastoral language.
The artistic, generic, and stylistic features of Alcuin's carmen 23 (MGH [Monumenta Germaniae Historic...
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In the following essay, Delp urges a favorable reappraisal of one of Alcuin's short texts on logic, De dialectica.
In surveying the scholarship on Alcuin's educational writings, one cann...
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In the following essay, Houghton contends that Alcuin was a skillful weaver of others' texts, not a mere compiler, and that his work speaks in a single voice.
Depreciation—ridicule, even...
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In the following essay, Bayless examines Alcuin's collection of riddles.
The early medieval period saw a flowring of riddles and riddle collections, both religious and secular, both earnest and...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Fleming West
