The school of Theodore and Hadrian
Michael Lapidge
In 669 Theodore, a Greek-speaking monk originally from Tarsus in Asia Minor, arrived England to take up his duties as archbishop of Canterbury. He was joined the following year by colleague Hadrian, Latin-speaking African origin and former abbot monastery Campania (near Naples). One their first tasks at Canterbury establishment school; according Bede (writing some sixty years later), they soon ‘attracted crowd students into whose minds daily poured streams wholesome learning’. goes on report, evidence teaching, that who survived own day were fluent Greek Latin native language. Elsewhere he names these students: Tobias (later bishop Rochester), Albinus (Hadrian's successor Canterbury), Oftfor Worcester) John Beverley. does not mention Aldhelm this connection; but we know letter addressed Hadrian too must be numbered among students. Unfortunately is only one alumni have left any writings, so are no position appraise high opinion which had formed learning.
Anglo-Saxon England