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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789047401803
Qualifying information (electronic book)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789004128651
Qualifying information (print)
024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1163/9789047401803
Source of number or code DOI
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System control number (OCoLC)191929859
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Original cataloging agency NL-LeKB
Transcribing agency NL-LeKB
Description conventions rda
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Geographic area code e-uk---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PA8245
Item number .B85 2004
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code HBJD
Source bicssc
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code HIS
Subject category code subdivision 010000
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 871/.03
-- B
Edition information 21
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bullough, Donald,
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Alcuin :
Remainder of title Achievement and Reputation /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Donald Bullough.
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Achievement and Reputation
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden;
-- Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer BRILL,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2004.
300 ## - online resource
Extent 1 online resource.
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Content type term text
Content type code txt
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337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term computer
Media type code c
Source rdamedia
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term online resource
Source rdacarrier
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ;
Volume/sequential designation 16
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Publisher's Note. xi -- Donald Bullough Memoir. xiii -- by Giles Contable -- Preface. xvii -- Chronology. xxiii -- List of Abbreviations. xxv -- PART ONE -- In Defence of the Biographical Approach. The Sources. 3 -- Theme and Variations. 3 -- The Modern Reputation and the Contemporary Period. 12 -- Posthumous Reputation. 17 -- Alcuin Revealed?. 24 -- The Evidence of the Letters. 35 -- Transmission of the Letters: the Beginnings. 43 -- Salzburg Copies of the Letters. 51 -- The 'Basic Tours Collection' of the Letters. 57 -- Omissions from the 'Basic Tours Collections'. 66 -- Manuscripts of the T Collection in England. 68 -- An Anomalous Collection. 71 -- A 'Personal' Collection of Letters?. 75 -- The English Collections of the Letters. 81 -- The Development of the Letter-Collections: the Evidence -- summarised. 101 -- Author, Notaries and Copyists. 103 -- Amicitia, and Sexual Orientation. 110 -- The Possibility and Limitations of 'Biography'. 117 -- Additional Note I. 120 -- Additional Note II. 122 -- Additional Note III. 123 -- PART TWO -- Chapter One Northumbrian Alcuin: Patria, Pueritia and -- Adoliscentia. 127 -- The Eight-Century Regnum northanhumbrorum. 129 -- Northumbrian Society. 135 -- Patres familias. 146 -- York, a City Emerging. 153 -- York and a Wider North. 160 -- The York Infans. 164 -- York Cathedral Community. 165 -- The Liturgy as Schooling. 176 -- "De Laude Dei" and the York Liturgy. 193 -- Hymns. 200 -- Mass-books. 204 -- New Liturgical Commemorations. 215 -- Calendar and Computers. 217 -- 'Grammatica': The Practice of Writing and Reading. 220 -- Biblical Study. 224 -- 'Vita quidem qualis fuit magistri?': Bede and Egbert. 227 -- Master and School. 236 -- A New Regime and a Wider World. 238 -- From York to Rome. 242 -- York Consecrations, 767. 247 -- Chapter Two Northumbrian Alcuin: 'Discit ut doceat'. 252 -- York books?. 255 -- 'Veterum vestigìa patrum'. 260 -- From the Other Island?. 274 -- Christian and Pre-Christian Poets. 277 -- Grammarians and pre-Christian Prose Writers. 282 -- Mastering 'Computus'. 287 -- The Beginnings of Letter-Writing. 293 -- Alcuin and the Vernacular. 301 -- Teacher and Perpetual Deacon. 304 -- 'Without the City Walls'. 309 -- A 'Public' Figure?. 314 -- The Cathedral Community. 326 -- Chapter Three Between Two Courts. 331 -- To Rome for the Pallium. 333 -- The Move to Francia. 336 -- 786: the Synodal Decrees. 346 -- At the Frankish Court: Beginnings. 356 -- Renovatio, Imitatio, Correctio. 371 -- 'The English Connection'. 391 -- Northumbria: Promise Unfulfilled. 395 -- Royal Counsellor. 401 -- Return to Francia. The Sack of Lindisfarne. 410 -- The Adviser at Frankfurt. Defender of Orthodoxy. 419 -- Chapter Four Unsettled at Aachen. 432 -- A Court Remembered in Verse. 437 -- England. 442 -- Court and Popes. 445 -- At the Aachen Court. Last months. 461 -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In this major intellectual biography of Alcuin (d. 804), the most prominent Anglo-Saxon scholar at the court of Charlemagne, Donald Bullough deploys a lifetime's expertise in the study of early medieval manuscripts. Concentrating on Alcuin's early years in Northumbria and then his time at the Carolingian court, Bullough reassesses the chronology of Alcuin's career and writings, assesses his use of patristic and insular writings, and explores the contemporary significance of his large output. At the core of this book lies a fundamental reassessment of the dating of Alcuin's letters: in so doing, it reveals the patterns of intellectual exchange and textual community that characterised the first phase of the Carolingian Renaissance. It thus offers a uniquely detailed and nuanced exploration of the life and ideas of the most influential early medieval scholar.
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Source of description note Description based on print version record.
600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Alcuin, 735-804.
610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Catholic Church
Geographic subdivision England
General subdivision Clergy
-- Biography.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Education, Medieval.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Educators
Geographic subdivision Great Britain
Form subdivision Biography.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Poets, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Geographic subdivision Great Britain
Form subdivision Biography.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Northumbria (Kingdom)
General subdivision Intellectual life.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Print version:
Title Alcuin : Achievement and Reputation.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2004
International Standard Book Number 9789004128651
Record control number (DLC) 2003050252
-- (OCoLC)52178095
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ;
Volume/sequential designation 16.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047401803">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047401803</a>

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