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166:. Alcuin defeated Felix in a debate before the synod and the latter recanted. He was, however, deposed from his bishopric and consigned to the custody of Leidrad in Lyon for life. He is mentioned in a letter Felix wrote that year. Alcuin in a letter asks Leidrad to send him a copy of Felix's treatise
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Leidrad was appointed to the diocese of Lyon by
Charlemagne in 797. In a letter he wrote to the emperor years later, between 809 and 812, he recalled how he had been appointed "to remedy the sins of carelessness in the past" that had left the church of Lyon "destitute ... with regard to its buildings
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Besides his letter to
Charlemagne, a letter Leidrad wrote to his sister on the death of her son also survives. At Charlemagne's request in 812, he also composed a theological treatise,
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for several years, was confirmed immediately by election, but not by
Emperor Louis for another two years. Leidrad died in 816. Alcuin praised his integrity and benevolence, while
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Leidrad did not finally take up his episcopal duties until 799. Two letters of Alcuin refer to him as bishop elect before this. In 799, he was appointed along with
Archbishop
185:. He paid special attention to the education of his clergy, the regulation of the liturgy and the building up of his library. At least five manuscripts bear his
51:. He also began a programme of building and renovation in his diocese, turning Lyon into a centre of learning. Of his writings, two letters and a treatise on
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82:(764–783). He joined Charlemagne's court shortly after 782. It has sometimes been asserted that he was Charlemagne's librarian. At court, he befriended
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252:. He re-founded many monasteries and expanded a house near the episcopal palace so that if Charlemagne ever visited there would be lodgings for him.
248:, and restored farm buildings. He built a cloister for his cantors on the pattern of Metz. This cloister is probably the building today known as the
677:"Using the Carolingian Past in a Society of Transformation: The Case of Early Medieval Septimania/Catalonia in the Long Tenth Century (900–1050)"
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for guidance. His reform of the liturgy appears to have been limited to the chant and the readings at Mass.
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that he was an adoptionist. The commission went to Urgell, where they convinced Felix to attend a
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McKitterick, Rosamond (1994). "Women and
Literacy in the Early Middle Ages".
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Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785–820
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Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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Books, Scribes and
Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th–9th Centuries
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if indeed he has a copy. In 804, Lyon was raised to an archbishopric.
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Under Leidrad, Lyon emerged as a centre of learning in the
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259:. In 814, Charlemagne's successor,
97:In 798, he completed a circuit as
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269:Abbey of Saint-MĂ©dard de Soissons
70:, where one of his colleague was
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617:Charlemagne: Empire and Society
88:church of Saint Martin at Tours
675:Tischler, Matthias M. (2019).
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712:. Cambridge University Press.
610:. Cambridge University Press.
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90:, where Alcuin was abbot.
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658:Tafel, Sigmund (1925).
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168:Against the Saracen
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331:Tafel 1925
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