Montpellier In Languedoc Throughout The Centuries: A “Little Cordoba”?
Montpellier In Languedoc Throughout The Centuries: A “Little Cordoba”?

Summary/Abstract: During the Middle Ages, in Montpellier the study of medicine was open to various talents, following the Antique, Arab and Judeo-Arabic schools. It was in Languedoc, a land that welcomed the Andalusian Jews fleeing the Almohades, and particularly in Montpellier, that a vast translation work – from Arabic into Hebrew – was undertaken in the exceptional footsteps of Tibbonides. Montpellier was the stage of the controversies against Maimondes’ thought in 1230, then against the philosophy of the “Greeks”, in the 1300’s. The exile imposed by Philippe le Bel in July 1306, tolled the bell for a brilliant community, compelled to leave for neighboring Catalonia, and the ancient Counties of Roussillon and Provence.

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