Michael Scot: The Translator Who Became a Legend

Michael Scot spent years mastering Arabic in Toledo so he could translate Aristotle and Averroes into Latin, work that reshaped medieval European thought from the court of Emperor Frederick II. But the quiet labor of translation was soon buried under legend: tales of demon horses, bound spirits, and a reputation dark enough to earn him a place in Dante's Inferno. This episode follows the real scholar underneath the sorcerer's myth, and the arrow his careful work sent forward through centuries of scholastic thought. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/michael-scot-translator-who-became-legend Share and read comments: https://harmonia.email/podcast-comments?field_podcast_feed_value=harmonia_s_history&from_node=415