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 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 ...

Before Alcuin left York in 782AD, he built up the library left to him by his own teacher, Archbishop Aelbehrt of York, into one of the greatest libraries anywhere in early medieval Europe.

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

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 ...

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.