Alcuin had returned in 790 from the…
July 793 CE
Alcuin had returned in 790 from the court of Charles to England, to which he had remained attached.
He dwelled there for some time, but Charles then invited him back to help in the fight against the Adoptionist heresy that is at this time making great progress in Toledo, the old capital of the Visigoths and still a major city for the Christians under Islamic rule in Spain.
He is believed to have had contacts with Beatus of Liébana, from the Kingdom of Asturias, who fought against Adoptionism.
He was back at Charlemagne's court by at least mid-792, writing a series of letters to Æthelred, to Hygbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne, and to Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury in the succeeding months, dealing with the Viking attack on Lindisfarne in July 793.
These letters and Alcuin's poem on the subject, De clade Lindisfarnensis monasterii, provide the only significant contemporary account of these events.
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