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Scot was a typical example of the polyglot wandering scholar of the Middle Ages—a churchman who knew Latin, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew. When he was about 50, Frederick II attracted him to his court in the Kingdom of Sicily, and at the instigation of the emperor he superintended (along with Hermannus Alemannus) a fresh translation of Aristotle and the Arabian commentaries from Arabic into Latin. There exist translations by Scot himself of the Historia animalium, of De anima and of De caelo, along with the commentaries of Averroes upon them. | Scot was a typical example of the polyglot wandering scholar of the Middle Ages—a churchman who knew Latin, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew. When he was about 50, Frederick II attracted him to his court in the Kingdom of Sicily, and at the instigation of the emperor he superintended (along with Hermannus Alemannus) a fresh translation of Aristotle and the Arabian commentaries from Arabic into Latin. There exist translations by Scot himself of the Historia animalium, of De anima and of De caelo, along with the commentaries of Averroes upon them. | ||
In a letter of 1227, recorded by Scot in his ''Liber particularis'', Frederick put questions to him concerning the foundations of the earth, the geography and rulership of the | In a letter of 1227, recorded by Scot in his ''Liber particularis'', Frederick put questions to him concerning the foundations of the earth, the geography and rulership of the [[heaven]]s, what is beyond the last heaven, in which heaven [[Yahweh|God]] sits, and the precise locations of [[Hell]], [[purgatory]] and heavenly paradise. He also asks about the soul; and about volcanoes, rivers, and seas. According to the chronicler Fra Salimbene, he attempted to catch Scot out in his calculations of the distance to heaven by scaling from the height of a church tower (by having it secretly lowered). Scot replied by saying that either the [[moon]] had gotten further away or the tower had gotten shorter. | ||
He was offered in 1223 the role of being the Archbishop of Cashel in Ireland by [[Grimoire of Pope Honorius|Pope Honorius III]]; then that of Canterbury in 1227 by Pope Gregory IX. | He was offered in 1223 the role of being the Archbishop of Cashel in Ireland by [[Grimoire of Pope Honorius|Pope Honorius III]]; then that of Canterbury in 1227 by Pope Gregory IX. | ||