St Thomas Aquinas
In Our Time
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Cultural Transmission through Arabic Scholars
Cultural knowledge flowed from the East through Arabic scholars and philosophers, not just through translators. This knowledge reached back to Augustine in the Roman age, and even further back to Aristotle. The transmission of knowledge continued into the medieval world of thought in Paris, where Albertus Magnus, a renowned philosopher, played a significant role.
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