Among his noted works was a Latin elegy on the destruction of Lindisfarne by the Danes. In addition, he arranged votive masses for particular days of the week in an order still followed by Catholics and reedited the Latin Vulgate. Educated under Archbishop Egbert, he met his future patron at Parma, and would settle down as abbot of Tours by 782 before going on to head the Palatine school established at Aachen by his patro
Among his noted works was a Latin elegy on the destruction of Lindisfarne by the Danes. In addition, he arranged votive masses for particular days of the week in an order still followed by Catholics and reedited the Latin Vulgate. Educated under Archbishop Egbert, he met his future patron at Parma, and would settle down as abbot of Tours by 782 before going on to head the Palatine school established at Aachen by his patron. FTP, name this figure of the Carolingian renaissance, an Englishman from York.
Among his noted works was a Latin elegy on the destruction of Lindisfarne by the Danes.
{Alcuin} or {Albinus} or {Ealhwine}