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Anglo‐Saxon scholar, teacher, and eventually advisor to Charlemagne, Alcuin was also a prolific author, producing important works in number of genres including poetry, letters, hagiography, religious political treatises, legal texts, moral tracts. born Northumbria during its height as center western European learning. He became headmaster at the cathedral school York (where he had been student) but, Charlemagne's invitation, left England for Carolingian royal court 782. There, leading figure, both so‐called Renaissance Frankish politics generally. died Tours 804.
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain