DYK at #Charlemagne’s court, same-sex expressions of love & friendship were passionate & commonplace? #Alcuin wrote the following to an older bishop. “Love has pierced my heart w/its flame...” And perhaps to the same guy he wrote:

Happy St Alcuin’s day from St Peters York where Alcuin - scholar, teacher, abbot - was Head Master

#york #stpetersyork #Alcuin

On this feast day of #Alcuin, where on BlueSky are all my #liturgists? ⚓️✝️

"Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."

Poems: allpoetry.com/Alcuin

🕯️ #Alcuin of York, English monk, poet, and scholar, #DOTD 19 May 804 AD. #Theology #Poetry

DYK #Charlemagne (d.814) imitated the courts of his Muslim foes to educate Europe in the art of love? His deputy, #Alcuin, helped him establish schools in his court & those of other kings. Nobles sent their children to them to be educated.