Alcuin Becomes Adviser to Charlemagne
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Education
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Emperors, Caesars, Khans
- Curriculum: Italian History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, French History
- Geographical Location: Germany, France, Frankish Kingdom, Italy
- Date: 781
Article abstract: Alcuin becomes adviser to Charlemagne, initiating a flowering of intellectual and cultural achievement that is known as the Carolingian Renaissance.
Summary of Event
Alcuin was a scholar and teacher. He was educated at the cathedral school at York where he remained first as a scholar in residence and later as head of the school and its library.
In 780-781, the Northumbrian king Elfwald sent Alcuin on a mission to Rome to ask for papal confirmation of Eanbald as the new archbishop of York. Around Easter, 781, as Alcuin was...
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