Alcuin on Virtues and Vices: A Manual for a Carolingian Soldier
Luitpold Wallach
The Work of the Northumbrian Alcuin in service Charlemagne by far excels importance contributions other scholars allied with Frankish king. One Alcuin's many interests was to develop leaders among laity a barbarian age sense moral responsibility and personal culture fit for commanding positions which these men held. Many letters sent members Royal household, kings Mercia Northumbria, British nobles government officials, overflow advice requests mend their ways. With this aim he wrote special works some persons — one example, Rhetoric as Via Regia Charlemagne, work must be classed oldest Carolingian speculum principis , preceding that Smaragdus St. Mihiel (written Louis Pious), Jonas Orláns (for Pippin Aquitania), Sedulius Scotus Lothar II), Hincmar Reims Charles Bald).
Harvard Theological Review