524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

1953.873 - 1976.476 Dominic Sandbrook

Well, partly because I always enjoy hearing your Yorkshire accent. Right. But also because the author of that letter was from York. He was a Northumbrian, so an Anglo-Saxon, called Alcuin. And Alcuin was a very distinguished scholar in the noblest traditions of the great achievements of Northumbrian scholarship. Venerable Bede. So he had been taught by a disciple of Bede, exactly.