Re-dating Alcuin's De dialectica: or, did Alcuin teach at Lorsch?
Eva M. E. Rädler-Bohn
Abstract Alcuin's De dialectica has traditionally been dated to second stay at Charlemagne's court ( c . 795–6/7). This dating based on the perceived for another didactic work by Alcuin, rhetorica It will be argued that (and ) must first period Continent 784/6–90). The new is primarily a philological comparison between and Opus Caroli regis (written 790–3 Theodulf of Orleans) but appears confirmed both contents its use specific sources. In Continent, we now also reassess as presenting unique testimony scholarly structures intellectual initiatives otherwise badly attested pre-Aachen phase court.
Anglo-Saxon England