Alcuin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Western Europe. He encouraged the study and preservation of ancient texts. His dialogue textbook of rhetoric, called Compendia, was widely used. He wrote verse, and...had one of his most famous schools. See studies by E. J. B. Gaskoin (1904), E. Duckett (1951, repr. 1965), and...