8th-century poets

Alcuin of York (; ; 735 – 19 May 804), also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s. Before that, he was also a court chancellor in Aachen. "The most learned man anywhere to be found", according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (–833), he is considered among the most important intellectual archit

8th century Benedictine monk, scribe and historian

missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire

Byzantine saint

Persian poet who wrote in Arabic (714–783)

Patriarch of Aquileia and saint

thumb|The Garni valley, where Sahakdukht spent much of her life as an ascetic living in a cave.

thumb|Modern-day Kemah, Erzincan|Kemah, Turkey, where the ancient city Ani-Kamakh was in which Khosrovidukht was imprisoned

Umayyad poet

Italian grammarian and poet (VIII secolo)