27 events with tag "Alcuin"
735
ID: 4073
Alcuin born in Northumbria - near York, will become greatest scholar of his age
ID: 4073
750
ID: 4074
Alcuin enters York cathedral school - studies under Aelbert, accesses finest library in Western Europe
ID: 4074
760
ID: 4075
Alcuin becomes deacon and teacher at York - never becomes priest, builds York library into best in Europe
ID: 4075
767
ID: 4076
Alcuin becomes master of York school - under Archbishop Eanbald, reputation spreads across Europe
ID: 4076
780
ID: 4077
Alcuin travels to Rome for pallium - sent by Archbishop Eanbald, collects manuscripts on journey
ID: 4077
781
ID: 4078
Alcuin meets Charlemagne at Parma - emperor recruits him to lead educational reform, pivotal moment
ID: 4078
782
ID: 4079
Alcuin arrives at Aachen - becomes head of palace school, begins transforming Frankish education
ID: 4079
783
ID: 4080
Alcuin establishes curriculum - introduces seven liberal arts (trivium and quadrivium) to Frankish education
ID: 4080
784
ID: 4081
Alcuin creates palace academy - gives classical nicknames: Charlemagne is 'David', himself 'Flaccus' (Horace)
ID: 4081
785
ID: 4082
Alcuin develops Caroline minuscule - clear lowercase script revolutionizes writing, basis of modern type
ID: 4082
786
ID: 4083
Alcuin writes educational textbooks - creates dialogues on grammar, rhetoric, dialectic for teaching
ID: 4083
787
ID: 4084
Alcuin begins Bible revision - works to produce accurate Vulgate text, corrects scribal errors
ID: 4084
789
ID: 2901
Admonitio Generalis - Charlemagne orders schools in every monastery and bishopric, Alcuin leads palace school
ID: 2901
792
ID: 4085
Alcuin combats Adoptionist heresy - writes against Spanish bishops Felix and Elipandus
ID: 4085
794
ID: 4086
Alcuin at Council of Frankfurt - helps condemn Adoptionism and Byzantine iconoclasm
ID: 4086
796
ID: 4087
Alcuin becomes Abbot of Tours - retires from court to St. Martin's, establishes great scriptorium
ID: 4087
797
ID: 4088
Alcuin's Tours scriptorium flourishes - produces magnificent Bibles, becomes Europe's publishing center
ID: 4088
798
ID: 4089
Alcuin introduces punctuation - develops question mark and other marks to clarify meaning in texts
ID: 4089
799
ID: 4090
Alcuin writes to Charlemagne about imperium - influences thinking before imperial coronation
ID: 4090
800
ID: 4091
Alcuin absent from imperial coronation - possibly disapproves of surprising Pope Leo III
ID: 4091
801
ID: 4092
Alcuin presents Tours Bible to Charlemagne - Christmas gift, masterpiece of Carolingian manuscripts
ID: 4092
802
ID: 4093
Alcuin's letter collection preserved - over 300 letters survive, major historical source
ID: 4093
803
ID: 4094
Alcuin's students spread learning - Rabanus Maurus becomes 'Teacher of Germany', legacy continues
ID: 4094
804
ID: 2916
Death of Alcuin - Charlemagne's chief scholar dies at Tours, leaves legacy of Carolingian Renaissance
ID: 2916
804
ID: 4095
Alcuin dies at Tours on May 19 - buried at St. Martin's, called 'most learned man of his age'
ID: 4095
804
ID: 4096
Alcuin's works preserved - 50+ treatises on theology, education, biblical commentary, 300+ poems
ID: 4096
804
ID: 4097
Alcuin's impact assessed - saved classical learning, created educational system for medieval Europe
ID: 4097