Introduction
Samuel W. Collins
At the end of eighth century Charlemagne granted venerable monastery St. Martin at Tours to Alcuin York, trusted advisor and exegete whose reputation in Frankish kingdoms was then its welldeserved height.1 The not, however, an obvious prize. community Martin, “neither monks nor canons,” paraphrase dismissive phrasing imperial letter, enjoyed a shabby Carolingian world, based, or so it said, on taste for disorder deep-set resistance authority.2 hope that Alcuin, with his widely acknowledged skills as teacher reformer, could improve life behavior community.
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