Translators of Toledo begin work

1087

Archbishop Bernard began gathering Jewish, Arabic, and Latin scholars to translate Arabic philosophical, mathematical, and medical works into Latin. Over the following century, Toledo would become the chief conduit by which Aristotle, Euclid, and Galen reached the Latin West in reliable translations from the Arabic. The collaborative method, with Jewish scholars rendering Arabic into Castilian and Latin scholars translating onward, was itself a remarkable feat of intercultural cooperation.