Alcuin Wikipedia audio article

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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin • • • 00:01:06 1 Biography • 00:01:15 1.1 Background • 00:02:41 1.2 York • 00:04:29 1.3 Charlemagne • 00:07:14 1.4 Return to Northumbria and back to Francia • 00:08:57 1.5 Tours and death • 00:10:09 2 Carolingian Renaissance figure and legacy • 00:10:20 2.1 Mathematician • 00:11:34 2.2 Literary influence • 00:13:40 2.3 Use of homo-erotic language in writings • 00:16:42 3 Legacy • 00:17:09 4 Quotations • 00:18:17 5 Selected works • 00:25:07 6 See also • • • • Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. • • Learning by listening is a great way to: • increases imagination and understanding • improves your listening skills • improves your own spoken accent • learn while on the move • reduce eye strain • • Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. • • Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: • https://assistant.google.com/services... • Other Wikipedia audio articles at: • https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... • Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: • https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts • Speaking Rate: 0.9407570904017135 • Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-E • • • I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. • Socrates • • • SUMMARY • ======= • Alcuin of York (; Latin: Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; c. 735 – 19 May 804 AD) – also called Ealhwine, Alhwin or Alchoin – was an English 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 '90s. • Alcuin wrote many theological and dogmatic treatises, as well as a few grammatical works and a number of poems. He was made Abbot of Tours in 796, where he remained until his death. The most learned man anywhere to be found , according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (ca. 817-833), he is considered among the most important architects of the Carolingian Renaissance. Among his pupils were many of the dominant intellectuals of the Carolingian era.

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