Alcuin: His Life and Legacy
by Douglas Dales
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Scholar, ecclesiastic, teacher and poet of the eighth century, Alcuin was a person of deep Christian faith, tenacious in his loyalty to orthodox Catholic theology. He had a seminal influence upon his own generation and those that came after him. This book examines his life and career on the continent; it also considers his legacy as a churchman and a leading political figure.Tags
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Douglas Dales was from 1984 to 2012 Chaplain of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and he is now a parish priest in the diocese of Oxford. He is the author of several studies in Anglo Saxon church history and other areas of theology, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of Alcuin: His Life and Legacy; Alcuin: Theology and show more Thought; Dunstan: Saint and Statesman; Light to the Isles: Mission and Theology in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Britain and Living Through Dying: The Spiritual Experience of Saint Paul (James Clakre Co). show less
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