The School of Charter or the French Cathedral Schools

Konstantin and the African obviously offered further material, which was then translated into Latin from Arabic. These sources contain much philosophical material, which later becomes very important for what we then call the School of Charter or the French Cathedral Schools. So this is basically then someone whose origins are in the Islamic world, but is a Christian presumably. And that means that he would have spoken Greek, Arabic, and Latin, is that right? Well, I'm not sure about the Greek. I don't think he knew Greek, but he got acquainted with Greek communities in southern Italy. The titles of these works often sound Greek-ising and something like plantechni. It's a medical work