阿尔琴

阿尔琴（，约）一作阿尔昆，是中世纪一位英格兰学者。生于英格兰诺森布里亚王国的约克。约782年应查理曼的邀请，赴加洛林王朝担任宫廷教师。对卡洛林文艺复兴有很大贡献。796年出任图尔的圣马丁修道院院长。

阿尔昆作为主教的秘使，在去往意大利的路上见到了查理曼。应查理曼的邀请，在亚琛的宫廷建立一所学校。他发明了卡洛林小草书体，为现代罗马字体的前身。

阿爾昆有一首名為《塵與土》的拉丁文詩作，跑馬地天主教聖彌額爾墳場取其兩句譯為「今夕吾軀歸故土　他朝君體也相同」，掛於入口。

参考文献
擴展閱讀
Frederick Lorenz. [http://www.archive.org/details/lifeofalcuin00lorerich The life of Alcuin]* (Thomas Hurst, 1837).
Rolph Barlow Page. [http://www.archive.org/details/lettersofalcuin00pagerich The Letters of Alcuin]* (New York: Forest Press, 1909).
E. M. Wilmot-Buxton. [http://www.archive.org/details/alcuin__00wilm Alcuin]* (P J Kennedy, 1922).
Stephen Allot. Alcuin of York, his life and letters* ISBN 0-900657-21-9
Andrew Fleming West. [http://www.archive.org/details/alcuinriseofchri00westiala Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools]* (C. Sscribner's Sons, 1912) ISBN 0-8371-1635-X
Eleanor Shipley Duckett. Alcuin, Friend of Charlemagne,* (1951)
Eleanor Shipley Duckett. Carolingian Portraits*, (1962)
F. L. Ganshof. The Carolingians and the Frankish Monarchy* ISBN 0-582-48227-5
Brian P. McGuire. Friendship, and Community: The Monastic Experience* ISBN 0-87907-895-2
Thomas Stehling. Medieval Latin Love Poems of Male Love and Friendship*,
Peter Godman. Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance* ISBN 0-7156-1768-0

• Stella, Francesco, "Alkuins Dichtung" in Alkuin von York und die geistige Grundlegung Europas , Sankt Gallen, Verlag am Klosterhof, 2010, pp. 107 – 128.

Throop, Priscilla, trans. Alcuin: His Life; On Virtues and Vices; Dialogue with Pepin* (Charlotte, VT: MedievalMS, 2011)
*Bullough, D. A, 'Alcuin - Achievement and Reputation (Brill, 2004)
*Dales, Douglas J, 'Alcuin - His Life and Legacy' (James Clarke & Co., Cambridge, UK, 2012)
*Dales, Douglas J, 'Alcuin - Theology and Thought' (James Clarke & Co., Cambridge, UK, 2013)

外部連結
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[http://logica.ugent.be/albrecht/alcuin.pdf Alcuin's book, Problems for the Quickening of the Minds of the Young*]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081205163439/http://www.bu.edu/english/levine/alcend.htm Introduction to Alcuin's writings by Robert Levine and Whitney Bolton]
[http://www.alcuinsociety.com/ The Alcuin Society*]
[http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/timeline/anglo-saxon Anglo-Saxon York on History of York site*]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081118194921/http://www.corpuschristianorum.org/series/cccm_preparation.html Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis: new critical editions in preparation]
*[http://kaali.linguist.jussieu.fr/CGL/index.jsp Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130502224321/http://cristoraul.com/ENGLISH/readinghall/GalleryofHistory/ALCUIN/Alcuin-Door.html THE LIFE OF ALCUIN BY DR. FREDERICK LORENZ in BTM Format]