In this week’s Blog posting I offer an additional image of the Blessed Alcuin of York. I had noted last week that I had found only one image of Alcuin; but, in continuing work on the AIC database of images, I found another one. In this image, painted in 1830 by French artist Jean-Victor Schnetz, known for his representations of historic scenes, Alcuin, kneeling before the imperial throne, appears to be presenting a document or item to the Emperor. The original is at the Louvre, Paris, France.
Charlemagne, and Alcuin, deserve greater recognition in the 21st C. for the contributions they made to the spread of Christianity into western Europe. In Alcuin’s own lifetime, Viking raiders were still raiding the English coast, inflicting serious damage to English monasteries and cathedrals. By the time of his death in 814, Charlemagne (Carolus Magnus), had overseen the extension of the Church Universal into all his lands, which ranged from present-day Italy south of Rome, nearly all of France and the northern regions of Spain, northward to the southern half of Denmark, and eastward into most of Germany and the northwest corner of the Balkans. Alcuin’s contribution was development of the concept of the moral responsibility of Christian rulers.
Next week’s Blog will be focused on the Hagia Sophia and the contributions of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian.
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