Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Marmoutier He says, “No doubt, Bishop Higbald is begging my answer on this matter of Lindisfarne’s sins because he is in need of a statement that he can read to both the surviving monks and also the political foe that will address this matter of sin from a scholarly distance.Continue reading “#71.9, Thursday, August 21, 2025”
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#71.8, Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Marmoutier Alcuin has the difficult task of answering Bishop Higbald’s need to address the earthly political power struggle in a time of the bishop’s own personal grief and loss at Lindisfarne. This teacher is asking me about my brief few days in that grieving land and I don’t have anyContinue reading “#71.8, Wednesday, August 20, 2025”
#71.6, Thursday, August 14, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Marmoutier on the Loire I was called to meet with Alcuin at this, the matins hour. He is anxiously seeking someone who can listen to the letter he is writing in response to Bishop Higbald’s letter. And he is particularly concerned about an issue that Higbald refers to, as theContinue reading “#71.6, Thursday, August 14, 2025”
#71.5, Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Marmoutier on the Loire Tonight, I’m staying in a guest room at the monastery near the shrine of St. Martin of Tours waiting here for the king’s scholar, Alcuin, to prepare his answer to Bishop Higbald’s letter with news of the Lindisfarne raid. It is the dark of morning,Continue reading “#71.5, Wednesday, August 13, 2025”
#71.3, Thursday, August 7, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Visiting the Monastery of St. Martin The monastery, Marmoutier, named to honor St. Martin whose shrine brings pilgrims to Tours was also renovated to keep up with the times. It is fully following the Rule of Benedict now. Even in places once Celtic, Benedictine Rule is used, because revisions in theContinue reading “#71.3, Thursday, August 7, 2025”
#70.12, Thursday, July 24, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Francia With the good fortune of finding a ship and fair winds I am a passenger on a trade vessel. It is less arduous than was the clandestine journey to Lindisfarne on the Longship — catching only storm winds, and rowing much of the way. Now, fully into the summerContinue reading “#70.12, Thursday, July 24, 2025”
#70.11, Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery Bishop Higbald prepares to bless a new abbot chosen from among these monks. A stranger here would assume I am a monk, but of course, all here know I only wear a borrowed robe so, I simply observe. I see that the bishop has the full administrativeContinue reading “#70.11, Wednesday, July 23, 2025”
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