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Translations from Arabic and the First Universities

Europe and the entire West owe much to Medieval Islamic culture. From the beginning of the 12th century, in fact, and until the middle of the 13th, an enormous quantity of documents of Islamic origin were translated from Arabic into Latin.…
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Marine Monsters of the Middle Ages

An extremely curious and fascinating branch of palaeography, the science that deals with the transcription of ancient documents, is dedicated to the transcription and translation from ancient languages, medieval Latin in particular, of a text…