...This essay examines the Latin translation of the Dionysian corpus by the twelfth-century scholar John Sarracenus, who may have been a Hellenophone and a Muslim by birth. The first section explains why Sarracenus and his ecclesiastical patrons felt the necessity of a new translation of Dionysius...

...This survey of the work of Robert Grosseteste as translator of Dionysius demonstrates that he was capable of improving on both the readings and the renderings of his predecessors in Latin. At the same time, this thirteenth-century philosopher, scholar, and Bishop of Lincoln shares with Sarracenus...