espana!

Ah, so exciting, the history of Spain.



We always hear about how the Renaissance started in Italy and they basically revived the learning of the classics; we rarely hear about how prior to that, people from all over Europe came to Toledo in Spain to find the Arabic texts and translations of the same Greek classics and all the newer sciences. I find it extremely awesome that apparently, an English philosopher called Daniel Morley went to Toledo, brought back to England an entire chest of translated texts, and handed them over to a bishop called John of Oxford, who wanted to establish a center of learning in Oxford.

Wow, I say. If only we paid more attention to history.