Abstract
Anglo‐Saxon scholar, teacher, and eventually advisor to Charlemagne, Alcuin was also a prolific author, producing important works in a number of genres including poetry, letters, hagiography, religious and political treatises, legal texts, and moral tracts. Alcuin was born in Northumbria during its height as a center of western European learning. He became headmaster at the cathedral school at York (where he had also been a student) but, at Charlemagne's invitation, left England for the Carolingian royal court in 782. There, he became a leading figure, both in the so‐called Carolingian Renaissance and Frankish politics generally. He died at Tours in 804.
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