As emperor, Charlemagne undertook a program of cultural reconstruction known as the “renovatio”, which involved the collecting and copying of books that had survived barbarian destruction and ...

Charlemagne’s minister Alcuin remarks in a letter ‘how much blood the father shed to secure the kingdom for his son’, and it seems that, no doubt remembering the earlier intra-family fighting, Offa ...

The raid on Lindisfarne shook the Christian world. This was not only a calamity for the church in England, but across Europe: the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin was serving in the court of Charlemagne at ...

Then there is Alcuin (c. 730-804), the man who founded schools for Charlemagne and in many ways was the emperor’s best friend. Charlemagne referred to Alcuin as “my mentor.” All the chroniclers agree ...

We can only guess what this says about Musk's God complex and its compatibility with his role as Trump's Alcuin. But my main objection to Musk's assertion is that it's a dangerous lie.

We can only guess what this says about Musk’s God complex and its compatibility with his role as Trump’s Alcuin. But my main objection to Musk’s assertion is that it’s a dangerous lie.

For Alcuin this was all in the service of Christianity. But scholars, being scholars, took advantage of this opportunity to start copying the ancient books that were available, writing commentaries on ...

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.