TEXT-inc Person Index
Alcuinus
- Name:
- Alcuinus (c.735-804)
Variant names:
- Ealhwine, Alhwin, Alchoin
- Biographical Details:
- Approximate dates; scholar, teacher, writer, educated at York, employed at court of Charlemagne, 796 Abbot of St.Martin’s at Tours; ODCC 35-6; Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 87.
- Categorisation:
- Dates: 735 to 804
Century: 8th century AD to 9th century AD
Geographical area: England
Place: York [Geonames ID 2633352]
Period: Medieval
Characterisation: religious
Profession: civil servant; clergy; scholar
- Works:
- Gender:
- Male
- Birth Year:
- 735
- Death Year:
- 804
- Author Id:
- 231