Library renovation and learning commons addition to cost $25 million Main goals center around interaction and new technologies Design respects original vision from architect Marcel Breuer ...

An exhibition at the University of York tells of the great lost library of Alcuin – one of the treasures of Anglo-Saxon England which vanished without trace. Or did it? STEPHEN LEWIS reports.

In the eighth century, the library and school headed by the renowned scholar Alcuin meant York was respected across Europe, but all trace of the library has since disappeared. Now, an exhibition ...

Alcuin of York spent most of his life abroad. He was an an adviser to Charlemagne the Great, and had the ear of Europe's intellectual elite. Despite his absence from home, his writings offer a ...

Alcuin was made head of the palace school at Aachen, which was attended by members of the royal court and the sons of noble families, and he established a great library there. He revised the ...

Alcuin of York spent most of his life abroad. He was an an adviser to Charlemagne the Great, and had the ear of Europe's intellectual elite. Despite his absence from home, his writings offer a ...