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97 relations: Aachen, Adoptionism, Al-Andalus, Alcuin College, York, Alcuin's sequence, Allen Frantzen, Anglican Communion, Anglo-Saxons, Archbishop of Canterbury, Arno of Salzburg, Ælfwald I of Northumbria, Æthelbert of York, Æthelhard, Æthelred I of Northumbria, Beatus of Liébana, Bede, Calligraphy, Carolingian art, Carolingian dynasty, Carolingian Empire, Carolingian minuscule, Carolingian Renaissance, Cathedral, Catholic Church, Charlemagne, Churl, Codex, Codex Vindobonensis 795, Colin Robert Chase, Colleges of the University of York, Correctory, Council of Frankfurt, Cuthbert, David, Deacon, Deira, Dialectic, Dialogue, Diocese, Donald A. Bullough, Dunstan, Eadberht of Northumbria, Eanbald (died 796), Ecgbert of York, Eclogues, Einhard, Felix (Bishop of Urgell), Fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle, Franks, Fulrad, ..., Genesis flood narrative, Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, Grammar, Hagiography, Heresiarch, History of the Church of England, Homosexuality, Humanism, Humber, John Boswell, Jonas of Bobbio, Kingdom of Asturias, Kingdom of Northumbria, Liberal arts education, Lindisfarne, Louis the Pious, Marmoutier Abbey, Tours, Missionaries and cannibals problem, Odgar, Palace of Aachen, Palatine Chapel, Aachen, Parma, Paulinus II of Aquileia, Pepin the Hunchback, Peter of Pisa, Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes, Quadrivium, Question mark, Rabanus Maurus, Rhetoric, River crossing puzzle, Rowan Williams, Sodom and Gomorrah, St Peter's School, York, Theodulf of Orléans, Theology, Toledo, Spain, Tours, Trivium, Uncial script, Venantius Fortunatus, Vikings, Virgil, Visigoths, Vita Karoli Magni, Willibrord, York. Expand index (47 more) »
Aachen
Aachen or Bad Aachen, French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle, is a spa and border city.
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Adoptionism
Adoptionism, sometimes called dynamic monarchianism, is a nontrinitarian theological doctrine which holds that Jesus was adopted as the Son of God at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension.
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Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus (الأنْدَلُس, trans.; al-Ándalus; al-Ândalus; al-Àndalus; Berber: Andalus), also known as Muslim Spain, Muslim Iberia, or Islamic Iberia, was a medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain occupying at its peak most of what are today Spain and Portugal.
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Alcuin College, York
Alcuin College is a college of the University of York located on Siward's Howe.
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Alcuin's sequence
In mathematics, Alcuin's sequence, named after Alcuin of York, is the sequence of coefficients of the power-series expansion of: The sequence begins with these integers: The nth term is the number of triangles with integer sides and perimeter n.
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Allen Frantzen
Allen J. Frantzen (born 1947 or 1948) is an American medievalist with a specialization in Old English literature.
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Anglican Communion
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion with 85 million members, founded in 1867 in London, England.
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Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.
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Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.
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Arno of Salzburg
Arno, Arn or Aquila (c. 750–821) was bishop of Salzburg, and afterwards its first archbishop.
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Ælfwald I of Northumbria
Ælfwald (born 759-767 AD) was king of Northumbria from 779 to 788.
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Æthelbert of York
Æthelbert (died 8 November 780) was an eighth century scholar, teacher, and Archbishop of York.
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Æthelhard
Æthelhard (died 12 May 805) was a Bishop of Winchester then an Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England.
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Æthelred I of Northumbria
Æthelred (c. 762 – 18 April 796), was the king of Northumbria from 774 to 779 and again from 790 until he was murdered in 796.
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Beatus of Liébana
Saint Beatus of Liébana (c. 730 – c. 800) was a monk, theologian and geographer from the former Duchy of Cantabria and Kingdom of Asturias, in modern Cantabria, northern Spain, who worked and lived in the Picos de Europa mountains of the region of Liébana.
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Bede
Bede (italic; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Bēda Venerābilis), was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St.
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Calligraphy
Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing.
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Carolingian art
Carolingian art comes from the Frankish Empire in the period of roughly 120 years from about 780 to 900—during the reign of Charlemagne and his immediate heirs—popularly known as the Carolingian Renaissance.
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Carolingian dynasty
The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family founded by Charles Martel with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.
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Carolingian Empire
The Carolingian Empire (800–888) was a large empire in western and central Europe during the early Middle Ages.
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Carolingian minuscule
Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in Europe so that the Latin alphabet could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.
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Carolingian Renaissance
The Carolingian Renaissance was the first of three medieval renaissances, a period of cultural activity in the Carolingian Empire.
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Cathedral
A cathedral is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne or Charles the Great (Karl der Große, Carlo Magno; 2 April 742 – 28 January 814), numbered Charles I, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor from 800.
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Churl
A churl (etymologically the same name as Charles / Carl and Old High German karal), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man", and more particularly a "husband", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled ċeorl(e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen.
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Codex
A codex (from the Latin caudex for "trunk of a tree" or block of wood, book), plural codices, is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials.
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Codex Vindobonensis 795
The Codex Vindobonensis 795 (Vienna Austrian National Library Codex) is a 9th-century manuscript.
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Colin Robert Chase
Colin Robert Chase (1935 – October 13, 1984) was an American academic.
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Colleges of the University of York
The University of York has nine colleges.
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Correctory
A correctory (plural correctories) is any of the text-forms of the Latin Vulgate resulting from the critical emendation as practised during the course of the thirteenth century.
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Council of Frankfurt
The Council of Frankfurt, traditionally also the Council of Frankfort, in 794 was called by Charlemagne, as a meeting of the important churchmen of the Frankish realm.
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Cuthbert
Cuthbert (c. 634 – 20 March 687) is a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition.
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David
David is described in the Hebrew Bible as the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.
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Deacon
A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions.
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Deira
Deira (Old English: Derenrice or Dere) was a Celtic kingdom – first recorded (but much older) by the Anglo-Saxons in 559 AD and lasted til 664 AD, in Northern England that was first recorded when Anglian warriors invaded the Derwent Valley in the third quarter of the fifth century.
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Dialectic
Dialectic or dialectics (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue), also known as the dialectical method, is at base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments.
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Dialogue
Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.
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Diocese
The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration".
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Donald A. Bullough
Donald Auberon Bullough (13 June 1928 – 26 June 2002) was a British historian who taught and published on the cultural and political history of Italy, England and Carolingian France during the early Middle Ages.
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Dunstan
Dunstan (909 – 19 May 988 AD)Lapidge, "Dunstan (d. 988)" was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint.
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Eadberht of Northumbria
Eadberht (died 20 August 768) was king of Northumbria from 737 or 738 to 758.
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Eanbald (died 796)
Eanbald (died 10 August 796) was an eighth century Archbishop of York.
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Ecgbert of York
Ecgbert (died November 766) was an 8th-century cleric who established the archdiocese of York in 735.
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Eclogues
The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.
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Einhard
Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart; Einhardus; 775 – March 14, 840 AD) was a Frankish scholar and courtier.
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Felix (Bishop of Urgell)
Felix, Bishop of Urgell, also known as Felix of Urzel (in Catalan: Fèlix d'Urgell, died in Lyon, 818) was a Christian bishop and theologian in the eighth century.
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Fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle
The fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle is a river crossing puzzle.
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Franks
The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum) were a collection of Germanic peoples, whose name was first mentioned in 3rd century Roman sources, associated with tribes on the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD, on the edge of the Roman Empire.
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Fulrad
Saint Fulrad (Fulrade; Fulradus) was born in 710 into a wealthy family, and died on July 16, 784 as the Abbot of St. Denis.Bunson and Bunson 2003, pp.345.
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Genesis flood narrative
The Genesis flood narrative is a flood myth found in the Hebrew Bible (chapters 6–9 in the Book of Genesis).
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Gisela, Abbess of Chelles
Gisela (757–810) was the daughter of Pepin the Short and his wife Bertrada of Laon.
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Grammar
In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.
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Hagiography
A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader.
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Heresiarch
In Christian theology, a heresiarch (also hæresiarch, according to the Oxford English Dictionary; from Greek: αἱρεσιάρχης, hairesiárkhēs via the late Latin haeresiarchaCross and Livingstone, Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 1974) or arch-heretic is an originator of heretical doctrine, or the founder of a sect that sustains such a doctrine.
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History of the Church of England
The formal history of the Church of England is traditionally dated by the Church to the Gregorian mission to Spain by Saint Augustine of Canterbury in AD 597.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Humanism
Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism and empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition.
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Humber
The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.
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John Boswell
John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947 – December 24, 1994) was a historian and a full professor at Yale University.
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Jonas of Bobbio
Monk Jonas of Bobbio or Jonas Bobiensis (Sigusia, now Susa, Italy, c. 600 – after 659) was a Columbanian monk and writer of hagiography, among which his Life of Saint Columbanus is notable.
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Kingdom of Asturias
The Kingdom of Asturias (Regnum Asturorum) was a kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula founded in 718 by the Visigothic nobleman Pelagius of Asturias (Asturian: Pelayu, Spanish: Pelayo).
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Kingdom of Northumbria
The Kingdom of Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīce) was a medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland.
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Liberal arts education
Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") can claim to be the oldest programme of higher education in Western history.
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Lindisfarne
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.
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Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious (778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of the Franks and co-Emperor (as Louis I) with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.
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Marmoutier Abbey, Tours
Marmoutier Abbey — also known as the Abbey of Marmoutier or Marmoutiers — was an early monastery outside Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.
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Missionaries and cannibals problem
The missionaries and cannibals problem, and the closely related jealous husbands problem, are classic river-crossing problems.
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Odgar
Odgar, Otgar, or Otger (died 21 April 847) was the Archbishop of Mainz from 826 until his death.
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Palace of Aachen
The Palace of Aachen was a group of buildings with residential, political and religious purposes chosen by Charlemagne to be the centre of power of the Carolingian Empire.
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Palatine Chapel, Aachen
The Palatine Chapel in Aachen is an early medieval chapel and remaining component of Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen in what is now Germany.
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Parma
Parma (Pärma) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its prosciutto (ham), cheese, architecture, music and surrounding countryside.
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Paulinus II of Aquileia
Saint Paulinus II (726 – 11 January 802 or 804 AD) was a priest, theologian, poet, and one of the most eminent scholars of the Carolingian Renaissance.
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Pepin the Hunchback
Pepin, or Pippin, the Hunchback (French: Pépin le Bossu, German: Pippin der Buckelige; c. 769 – 811) was the eldest son of Charlemagne.
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Peter of Pisa
Peter of Pisa (Petrus Pisanus; Pietro da Pisa; 744 – 799 AD), also known as Petrus Grammaticus, was an Italian grammarian, deacon and poet in the early middle ages.
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Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes
The medieval Latin manuscript Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes (Problems to Sharpen the Young) is one of the earliest known collections of recreational mathematics problems.
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Quadrivium
The quadrivium (plural: quadrivia) is the four subjects, or arts, taught after teaching the trivium.
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Question mark
The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
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Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk and theologian who became archbishop of Mainz in Germany.
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.
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River crossing puzzle
A river crossing puzzle is a type of transport puzzle in which the object is to carry items from one river bank to another, usually in the fewest number of trips.
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Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet.
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and in the deuterocanonical books, as well as in the Quran and the hadith.
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St Peter's School, York
St Peter's School is a co-educational independent boarding and day school (also referred to as a public school), in the English City of York, with extensive grounds on the banks of the River Ouse.
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Theodulf of Orléans
Theodulf of Orléans (750(/60) – 18 December 821) was a writer, poet and the Bishop of Orléans (c. 798 to 818) during the reign of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.
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Theology
Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.
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Toledo, Spain
Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain; it is the capital of the province of Toledo and the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha.
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Tours
Tours is a city located in the centre-west of France.
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Trivium
The trivium is the lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric (input, process, and output).
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Uncial script
Uncial is a majusculeGlaister, Geoffrey Ashall.
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Venantius Fortunatus
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (530 – 600/609 AD) was a Latin poet and hymnodist in the Merovingian Court, and a Bishop of the Early Church.
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Vikings
Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.
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Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
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Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi; Visigoti) were the western branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to collectively as the Goths.
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Vita Karoli Magni
Vita Karoli Magni (Life of Charles the Great) is a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor, written by Einhard.
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Willibrord
Willibrord (658 – 7 November AD 739) was a Northumbrian missionary saint, known as the "Apostle to the Frisians" in the modern Netherlands.
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York
York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin
