Alcuin

A product of the cathedral school of York, then the finest in Europe, Alcuin was recruited by Charlemagne in 781 to lead the palace school at Aachen, and became the guiding mind of the Carolingian Renaissance. He reformed the liturgy, corrected the biblical text — his revision of the Vulgate became widely standard — promoted the clear new script whose letterforms underlie our lowercase type, and wrote textbooks, poems, and hundreds of letters. He ended his days as abbot of St. Martin's at Tours. A teacher more than an original thinker, he ensured the fathers he loved would be copied, read, and remembered.

The lowercase letters you are reading descend from Carolingian minuscule, the clear script Alcuin's scriptoria helped standardize across Charlemagne's empire.

Alcuin has 171 commentary entries in HolyStudy’s verse-by-verse Church Fathers commentary. Open any Gospel chapter, tap a verse, and choose the Church Fathers tab.