#carolingian renaissance

• Alcuin — An Anglo-Saxon scholar, theologian, philosopher, and educator (Alcuin of York, c. 735–804), who became the chief cultural advisor to Charlemagne and the architect of the Carolingian Renaissance. He reorganized the palatine school at Aachen, standardized the Carolingian minuscule script, and established an educational framework based on the liberal arts (Trivium and Quadrivium), laying the foundations of European medieval culture.