Saturday, January 11, 2025

Alcuin of York




Not knowing about Alcuin is like not knowing about St Augustine.  It is hard to do unless you are brought up in a protestant bubble like I was.  He was amazing and it turns out that he created our lower case script making transcribing much easier.

This was 700 years before Gutenburg.

Recall that Charleman drove the forced conversion of the Saxons in particular.after uniting all of modern France.  Major policy that surely led to the conversion of Eastern Europe.

My own father's linage were saxon pioneers pushing east into the Carpatheans bringing Christiaity with them five centuries later.



Alcuin of York

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