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Alcuin

Alcuinus la

8th-century Northumbrian scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher

  • Dated c. 740 CE – 19 May 804 CE
  • Recognised as Blessed
  • Also called Flaccus Albinus, Alcuinus, Alhwin

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

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