Alcuin of York (c.735 - 804) This famous scholar is one of our best sources of information for the later eighth century. He was educated in the cathedral school at York, and became a monk and ...

On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Alcuin. "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 ...

Alcuin saw the Viking onslaught as divine retribution for the slack standards of the Northumbrian people, much as he might have interpreted an epidemic of disease as punishment for human sin.

THE mystery surrounding York’s famous lost library will be the focus of a new exhibition in the city.

Alcuin of York spent much of his life in continental Europe, as an adviser to Charlemagne the Great, and was in close touch with the intellectual élite of his time. His letters and other writings ...