# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alcuin
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:26:04.077Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 735 in Northumbria, Alcuin studied under Archbishop Ecgbert at York before Charlemagne summoned him to the Carolingian court. He served as court chancellor in Aachen through the 780s and 790s, writing theological treatises, grammatical works, and poems while teaching the pupils who would define the era's intellectual landscape. In 796 he was made abbot of Marmoutier Abbey in Tours, where he refined the Carolingian minuscule script — the clear, compact handwriting that would carry medieval knowledge forward. He died there on 19 May 804, having built the scaffold on which an empire learned to read.