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Alcuin of York : $b Lectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)

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Alcuin of York : $b Lectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908

Name: Alcuin of York : $b Lectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908
Author: Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)

Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)

Alcuin, 735-804

The large bulk of Alcuin’s letters and other writings.—The
    main dates of his life.—Bede’s advice to Ecgbert.—Careless
    lives of bishops.—No parochial system.—Inadequacy of the
    bishops’ oversight.—Great monasteries to be used as sees for
    new bishoprics, and evil monasteries to be suppressed.—Election
    of abbats and hereditary descent.—Evils of pilgrimages.—Daily
    Eucharists                                                          51

                               CHAPTER IV

    The school of York.—Alcuin’s poem on the Bishops and Saints
    of the Church of York.—The destruction of the Britons by
    the Saxons.—Description of Wilfrith II, Ecgbert, Albert, of
    York.—Balther and Eata.—Church building in York.—The Library of
    York                                                                68

                                CHAPTER V

    The affairs of Mercia.—Tripartite division of England.—The
    creation of a third archbishopric, at Lichfield.—Offa and
    Karl.—Alcuin’s letter to Athelhard of Canterbury; to Beornwin
    of Mercia.—Karl’s letter to Offa, a commercial treaty.—Alcuin’s
    letter to Offa.—Offa’s death                                        87

                               CHAPTER VI

    Grant to Malmesbury by Ecgfrith of Mercia.—Alcuin’s letters to
    Mercia.—Kenulf and Leo III restore Canterbury to its primatial
    position.—Gifts of money to the Pope.—Alcuin’s letters to the
    restored archbishop.—His letter to Karl on the archbishop’s
    proposed visit.—Letters of Karl to Offa (on a question of
    discipline) and Athelhard (in favour of Mercian exiles)            106

                               CHAPTER VII

    List of the ten kings of Northumbria of Alcuin’s
    time.—Destruction of Lindisfarne, Wearmouth, and Jarrow, by the
    Danes.—Letters of Alcuin on the subject to King Ethelred, the
    Bishop and monks of Lindisfarne, and the monks of Wearmouth and
    Jarrow.—His letter to the Bishop and monks of Hexham               122

                              CHAPTER VIII

    Alcuin’s letters to King Eardulf and the banished intruder
    Osbald.—His letters to King Ethelred and Ethelred’s mother.—The
    Irish claim that Alcuin studied at Clonmacnoise.—Mayo of the
    Saxons                                                             140

                               CHAPTER IX

    Alcuin’s letter to all the prelates of England.—To the Bishops
    of Elmham and Dunwich.—His letters on the election to the
    archbishopric of York.—To the new archbishop, and the monks
    whom he sent to advise him.—His urgency that bishops should
    read Pope Gregory’s Pastoral Care                                  157

                                CHAPTER X

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Alcuin of York : $b Lectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908

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