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Alcuin
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“The church of St Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God, stripped of all its furnishing, exposed to the plundering of pagans.”
Alcuin (740–804) said by 804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the king of Northumbria, after the Viking raid on Lindisfarne (793), as quoted in Dan Jones, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (2021)
“I, your Flaccus, am busy carrying out your wishes and instructions at St. Martin's, giving some the honey of the holy scriptures, making others drunk on the old wine of ancient learning.”
Alcuin (740–804) said by 804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Charlemagne (796), as translated by Stephen Allott, Alcuin of York, c. A.D. 732 to 804: His Life and Letters (1974), p. 12
“Populus iuxta sanctiones divinas ducendus est, non sequendus; et ad testimonium personae magis eliguntur honestae. Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.”
Alcuin (740–804) said by 804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Charlemagne (800), as quoted in Eleanor Shipley Duckett, Alcuin, Friend of Charlemagne (1951), p. 224, footnote
“Quapropter potius animam curare memento, quam carnem, quoniam haec manet, illa perit”
Alcuin (740–804) said by 804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source