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2 - Alcuin, Willibrord, and the Cultivation of Faith

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Sed ex parte desunt mihi, servulo vestro, exquisitiores eruditionis scolasticae libelli, quos habui in patria per bonam et devotissimam magistri mei industriam vel etiam mei ipsius qualemcumque sudorem. Idem haec vestrae excellentiae dico … ut aliquos es pueris nostris remittam, qui excipiant inde nobis necessaria quaeque et revahant in Frantiam flores Britanniae, ut non sit tantummodo in Euborica hortus conclusus, sed in Turonica emmisiones paradisi cum pomorum fructibus, ut veniens Auster perflaret hortos Ligeri fluminis et fluant aromata illius, et novissime fiat quod sequitur in cantico, unde hoc adsumpsi paradigma: ‘Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum, et comedat fructum pomorum suorum’; et dicat adulescentis suis: ‘Comedite, amici mei, bibite et inebriamini carissimi. Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat’, vel illud exhortativum ad sapientiam discendam Esiae prophetae elogium: ‘Omnes sitientes venite ad aquas. Et qui non habetis argentum, properate emite et comedite; venite, emite absque argento et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac.’

In a frequently cited passage from a letter written to Charlemagne in 796/7, Alcuin, in semi-retirement as the abbot of St Martin's at Tours, describes, in the context of a request for his monarch's support in the enlargement of the monastic library, his commitment to the improvement of the standard of monastic education at St Martin's in Tours.

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The Haskins Society Journal 14
2003. Studies in Medieval History
, pp. 15 - 32
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2005

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