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  "summary": "The 12th-century translation movement centered on Toledo through which Arabic science and philosophy — and with it much of Greek learning — passed into Latin Europe. Gerard of Cremona and Dominicus Gundissalinus led complementary translation programs; modern scholarship treats \"school\" as a label for this coherent activity, not a formal institution.",
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      "text": "In the twelfth century Toledo became the principal center of Arabic-to-Latin translation, with Gerard of Cremona and Dominicus Gundissalinus as the two principal translators, each concentrating on different areas of knowledge.",
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      "text": "Gerard of Cremona followed a discernible program in his translations, systematically turning the Arabic corpus of the exact sciences and philosophy into Latin and thereby supplying Latin Europe with learning it had lacked.",
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      "text": "The label \"school of translators\" is a later historiographical convenience: what the sources support is a coherent, sustained translation program in one city, not an organized teaching institution — a distinction modern scholarship insists on.",
      "sources": [
        "burnett-toledo-2001"
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      "confidence": 0.8
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  "winning_edge": "Popular accounts oscillate between myth (a formal medieval academy of three faiths) and dismissal. This object states what the leading specialist study actually supports — the coherence of the program and the transmission achievement — with the label's limits declared.",
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