Toledo School of Translators

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medieval scholarly institution translation center

The Toledo School of Translators was a medieval center in Toledo, Spain, where scholars collaboratively translated major works of science, philosophy, and literature—especially from Arabic and Hebrew into Latin and Castilian—playing a key role in transmitting classical and Islamic knowledge to Western Europe.

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Label Occurrences
Toledo School of Translators canonical 3
Toledan school of translators 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf medieval scholarly institution ⓘ
translation center ⓘ
activeInCentury 12th century ⓘ
13th century ⓘ
activeInPeriod Middle Ages ⓘ
country Castile ⓘ
surface form: Kingdom of Castile
culturalContext Christian–Muslim–Jewish intellectual exchange ⓘ
employedScholar Dominic Gundissalinus ⓘ
Gerard of Cremona ⓘ
Hermann the German ⓘ
Michael Scot ⓘ
fieldOfWork literature ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ
science ⓘ
translation ⓘ
hasHeritageStatus important site in history of Western science and philosophy ⓘ
historicalRole bridge between Islamic and Latin Christian intellectual traditions ⓘ
influenced European medieval philosophy ⓘ
European medieval science ⓘ
Scholasticism ⓘ
development of Castilian as a learned language ⓘ
languageOfSourceTexts Arabic ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
languageOfTargetTexts Castilian ⓘ
Latin ⓘ
locatedIn Iberian Peninsula ⓘ
Toledo ⓘ
Toledo, Spain ⓘ
methodOfWork collaborative translation from Arabic or Hebrew into vernacular then into Latin ⓘ
notableFor collaborative translation methods ⓘ
transmission of Islamic scientific knowledge to Western Europe ⓘ
transmission of classical knowledge to Western Europe ⓘ
partOf medieval translation movement ⓘ
patron Alfonso X of Castile ⓘ
Raymond of Toledo ⓘ
translatedAuthor Al-Farabi ⓘ
Al-Khwarizmi ⓘ
Aristotle ⓘ
Averroes ⓘ
Avicenna ⓘ
Galen ⓘ
Claudius Ptolemaeus ⓘ
surface form: Ptolemy
translatedWorkType astronomical works ⓘ
mathematical works ⓘ
medical texts ⓘ
philosophical treatises ⓘ
religious and theological texts ⓘ

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Alfonso X of Castile → patronOf → Toledo School of Translators ⓘ
City of the Three Cultures → associatedWith → Toledo School of Translators ⓘ
El Sabio → patronage → Toledo School of Translators ⓘ
subject surface form: Alfonso X of Castile
Al-Zarqali's Toledan Tables → associatedWith → Toledo School of Translators ⓘ
this entity surface form: Toledan school of translators