“The Articella” as a Basis for University Teaching

The Eastern Roman Empire preserved a good number of medical texts from Greek and Roman times, where they had been rewritten in Arabic in order to make them more widely available throughout the Islamic Empire.

One monk became
interested in translating
these medical texts
into Latin, and his efforts
helped launch an interest
in scholarly training for
physicians in the West.
Constantinus Africanus
(1010–87) was a native of
Carthage, under Arab rule
at that time, so Constantinus
was exposed to a
variety of languages. His