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"I, your Flaccus, am busy carrying out your wishes and instructions at St. Martins, giving some the honey of the holy scriptures, making others drunk on the old wine of ancient learning."
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Alcuin of York, also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s. Before that, he was also a court ch
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