Alexander Fidora - Selected Publications#
Books
[Ed. with H. Hames and Y. Schwartz:] Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts in Contexts, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013 (1 review).
[Ed.:] Die mantischen Künste und die Epistemologie der prognostischen Wissenschaften im Mittelalter, unter redaktioneller Mitarbeit von K. Bauer, Köln: Böhlau, 2013 (3 reviews).
Guiu Terrena, Confutatio errorum quorundam magistrorum, Latin text with Catalan and English translations by Alexander Fidora, Almudena Blasco and Celia López Alcalde, Santa Coloma de Queralt/Barcelona: IEC/Obrador Edèndum/UAB/URV (BPhMAC 3), 2014 (6 reviews).
[Ed.:] Guido Terreni, O. Carm. († 1342): Studies and Texts, Barcelona/Madrid: FIDEM (TEMA 78), 2015 (3 reviews).
[Transl. and introd.:] Arnau de Vilanova: Über den Antichrist und die Reform der Christenheit, Barcelona/Münster i. W.: Barcino/Lit, 2015.
[Ed. with N. Polloni:] Appropriation, Interpretation and Criticism: Philosophical Exchanges between the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Intellectual Traditions, Barcelona/Rome: FIDEM, 2017.
[Ed. with G. Hasselhoff:] Ramon Martí’s Pugio fidei: Studies and Texts, Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edèndum, 2017.
[Ed. with G. Hasselhoff:] The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages, Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB, 2019.
Albertus Magnus und der Talmud (Lectio Albertina 20), Münster i. W.: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020.
[Ed. with Sonja Brentjes], Premodern Translation. Comparative Approaches to Cross-Cultural Transformations, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
Extractiones de Talmud per ordinem thematicum, critical edition by Ulisse Cecini, Óscar de la Cruz, Alexander Fidora and Isaac Lampurlanés (Corpus Christianorum – Continuatio Mediaevalis 291A), Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
[Introd. and transl.:] Francesc Eiximenis: Die Regierung des Gemeinwesens (katalanisch-deutsch), Freiburg i. Br.: Herder (Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters 60), 2024.
[Ed. with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann:] Christian Readings of Rabbinic Sources in Medieval Polemic, Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2024.
Journal articles
«Dominicus Gundissalinus and the Introduction of Metaphysics into the Latin West», The Review of Metaphysics 66 (2013), pp. 691-712.
«Ponç Carbonell and the Early Franciscan Reception of the Pugio fidei», Medieval Encounters 19 (2013), pp. 567-585.
«Divination and Scientific Prediction: The Epistemology of Prognostic Sciences in Medieval Europe», Early Science and Medicine 18/6 (2013), pp. 517-535.
«Scientia moralis and prudentia: The Medieval Roots of a Contemporary Problem», Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 65 (2013-2014), pp. 151-163.
[With M. Tischler:] «Zwischen Avignon, München und Tortosa. Die Defensor pacis-Handschrift des Marsilius von Padua in der Bibliothek Benedikts XIII.», Scriptorium 69 (2015), pp. 179-189 and pl. 27-31.
«Die Handschrift 19b des Arxiu Capitular de Girona: Ein Beitrag zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des lateinischen Talmud», in Hans-Christian Lehner et al. (eds.), Zwischen Rom und Santiago. Festschrift für Klaus Herbers zum 65. Geburtstag, Bochum: Winkler, 2016, pp. 49-56.
«Ramon Llull i el camí del pensament modern», in Jordi Savall (dir.), Ramon Llull, temps de conquests, de diàleg i desconhort, Bellaterra: Sonjade, 2016, pp. 56-57.
«Omnes decepti sunt. Die Metaphysikkritik des Dominicus Gundissalinus (ca. 1150)», in Gerhard Krieger (ed.), Die Metaphysik des Aristoteles im Mittelalter. Rezeption und Transformation, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016, pp. 131-152.
[With U. Cecini:] «Nicholas Donin’s Thirty-Five Articles Against the Talmud: A Case of Collaborative Translation in Jewish-Christian Polemic», in Charles Burnett and Pedro Mantas-España (eds.), ‘Ex Oriente Lux’. Translating Words, Scripts and Styles in Medieval Mediterranean Society. Selected Papers, Córdoba/London: CNERU/The Warburg Institute, 2016, pp. 187-199.
«Ramon Llull: L’Art com a mètode», Tribuna plural: La revista científica de la RAED 11/3 (2016), pp. 57-61.
[With A. Akasoy and Ch. Burnett:] «Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen und Hebräischen ins Lateinische», in Alexander Brungs, Vilem Mudroch and Peter Schulthess (eds.), Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. 4/1: Die Philosophie des Mittelalters, Basel: Schwabe, 2017, pp. 130-143.
«L’Art de Raymond Lulle comme science universelle», Quaderns de la Mediterrània 24 (2017), pp. 145-149 and 252-256.
«Albert the Great and the Talmud», in Alexander Fidora and Nicola Polloni (eds.), Appropriation, Interpretation and Criticism: Philosophical Exchanges between the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Intellectual Traditions, Barcelona/Rome: FIDEM, 2017, pp. 122-136.
[With E. Vernet:] «Translating Ramon Martí’s Pugio fidei into Castilian», in Görge Hasselhoff and Alexander Fidora (eds.), Ramon Martí’s Pugio fidei: Studies and Texts, Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edèndum, 2017, pp. 241-259.
«The Latin Talmud and its Place in Medieval Anti-Jewish Polemic», in Ulisse Cecini and Eulàlia Vernet (eds.), Studies on the Latin Talmud, Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017, pp. 13-21.
«Marsilio de Padua en la Península ibérica: la Confutatio errorum quorundam magistrorum de Guido Terrena», in Celia López Alcalde, Josep Puig and Pedro Roche Arnas (eds.), Legitimation of Political Power in Medieval Thought, Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, pp. 159-170.
«“Sicut oleum super aquam”: Sobre la relación entre fe y razón en Ramon Llull», in Maria Cabré Duran and Alexander Fidora (eds.), De relatione (= Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason 61 (2018)), pp. 121-138.
[With N. Carpentieri and I. Lampurlanés:] «Avicena y Gerardo de Cremona sobre la frenitis: Una comparación entre al-Qānūn fī aṭ-Ṭibb y su traducción latina», Al-Qantara 39/2 (2018), pp. 292-320.
[With F. Dal Bo:] «“Inicium Creationis Iesu Nazareni”. Toledot Yeshu in the Thematic Version of the Extractiones de Talmud», Henoch. Historical and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity 40/2 (2018), pp. 206-222.
«Raimondo Lullo rispetto alla critica attuale al dialogo interreligioso: l’arte lulliana come proposta per una “filosofia delle religioni”», in Óscar de la Cruz (ed.), Raimundo Lullo e il nuovo dialogo tra Cristianesimo, Ebraismo e Islam, Barcelona: Ateneu Universitari Sant Pacià, 2019, pp. 229-255.
«The Influence of the Extractiones de Talmud on Anti-Jewish Sermons from the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries», in Alexander Fidora and Görge K. Hasselhoff (eds.), The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages, Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB, 2019, pp. 235-247.
[With I. Lampurlanés:] «John of Muntisol’s Commentary on on Aristotle’s Peri hermeneias», Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 61 (2019), pp. 33-43.
«Ramon Llull’s Critique of Political Astrology», Quaestio. Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics 19 (2019) (= Stars, Kingdoms, Beliefs, and Masses. Political Astrology in the Mediterranean Area from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance), pp. 279-292.
«The Arabic Influence on the Classification of Philosophy in the Latin West: The Case of the Introductions to Philosophy», Micrologus. Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies 28 (2020) (= The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World), pp. 191-209.
«The Latin Talmud and the Extension of Papal Jurisdiction over Jews», Medieval Worlds 11 (2020), pp. 152-164.
«The Soul as Harmony: A Disputed Doctrine in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Anthropology», Cistercian Studies Quarterly 55/3 (2020), pp. 333-345.
«The Inception Speech of Galdericus as an Introduction to Thirteenth-Century Theology and Philosophy», Archives d'Histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge 87 (2020), pp. 43-58.
«Philosophy – Wisdom – Theology. Gerard of Abbeville’s Principium and Its Reception During the Thirteenth Century», Mediaeval Studies 82 (2020), pp. 183-206.
«Tractates on the Division of the Sciences in the Medieval Western Christian World», in Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers and Hans-Christian Lehner (eds.), Prognostication in the Medieval World. A Handbook, vol. I, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 991-995.
«The Talmud in the Summa Halensis», in Lydia Schumacher (eds.), The Legacy of Early Francican Thought, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 169-182.
«L’astròleg maligne: Notes sobre les fonts d’un exemple lul·lià», in Anna Alberni et al. (eds.), ‘Qui fruit ne sap collir’. Homenatge a Lola Badia, Barcelona: UB/Barcino, 2021, vol. I, pp. 267-275.
«Gundissalinus, Arabic Philosophy and the Division of the Sciences in the Thirteenth Century: the Prologues in Philosophical Commentary Literature», in Sonja Brentjes and Alexander Fidora (eds.), Premodern Translation. Comparative Approaches to Cross-Cultural Transformations, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, pp. 63-88.
«Die christlich-jüdische Disputation von Barcelona aus dem Jahr 1263: Wende- oder Höhepunkt?», in Mariano Delgado, Gregor Emmenegger and Volker Leppin (eds.), Apologie, Polemik, Dialog. Religionsgespräche in der Christentumsgeschichte, Basel/Stuttgart: Schwabe/Kohlhammer, 2021, pp. 191-206.
«Stephen of Besançon’s principium in aula (1286): An Epistemological Approach to the Relation between Philosophy and Theology», Traditio 76 (2021), pp. 319-336.
«Doubt, Belief and Inter-Religious Dialogue in Ramon Llull», in Diego Sarrió (ed.), Il Beato Raimondo Lullo: Il personaggio e il suo rapporto con l’Islam, Rome: Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2021, pp. 75-89.
[With N. Polloni:] «Hugh of St Victor, Dominicus Gundissalinus and the Place of the Mechanical Arts in Medieval Architectures of Knowledge», Revue de théologie et de philosophie 153 (2021), pp. 291-318.
«The Philosophical Sources of Bonaventure’s De reductione artium ad theologiam», Franciscan Studies 79 (2021), pp. 23-38.
«Arnau de Vilanova, traductor de la pseudo-Hildegarda de Bingen. Observacions i esmenes al text de la Confessió de Barcelona», in Isabel Müller and Frank Savelsberg (eds.), Sabers per als laics: Vernacularització, formació, transmissió (Corona d’Aragó, 1250-1600) (= Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 463), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 123-134.
«Ramon Llull i la Bíblia: Exegesi i raó especulativa», in Joan Santanach, Joan Ferrer and Sergi Dalemus Adroher (eds.), La Bíblia en la literatura catalana, Girona: Publicacions de l’ILCC, 2022, pp. 101-121.
«Cognitio de Deo: Philosophy and Theology in Nicholas of Lyra’s principium», Medievalia. Textos e estudos 41 (2022), pp. 303-314.
[With N. Polloni:] «Ordering the Sciences: al-Fārābī and the Latinate Tradition», Ishraq. Islamic Philosophy Yearbook 10 (2022), pp. 110-130.
«The Trial of 1240 against the Talmud: A Reassessment of the Christian Account plus a New Edition», Sefarad 82/1 (2022), pp. 7-29.
«Philology and Polemics in the Latin Talmud Dossier», in Sonja Brentjes (ed.), Narratives on Translation across Eurasia and Africa, Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, pp. 219-228.
«Kurt Flasch, hereu de l’escola lul·liana maguntina», in Rafael Ramis (ed.), Ramon Llull y los lulistas (siglos XIV-XX), Madrid: Sindéresis, 2022, pp. 1111-1118.
[With J. L. A. Rivera Luque:] «The Multiplicity of Translating Communities in the Iberian Peninsula (12th-13th Centuries)», in Sonja Brentjes (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies, London/New York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 705-719.
«‘Mahumetani sinenses velint de lege christiana et mahumetana disserere.’ Una nota sobre el Brevis apparatus et modus agendi ac disputandi cum mahumetanis de Carlo de Castorano (1673-1755)», Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 8 (2023), pp. 463-469.
«John Wyclif’s Principium Biblicum Revisited: Philosophy as a Necessary Condition for the Study of Theology», Vivarium 61 (2023), pp. 288-317.
[With U. Cecini and Ó. de la Cruz:] «Origen, versiones y autoría de la traducción latina del Talmud (ca. 1245)», in Estrella Pérez Rodríguez and Alberto Alonso Guardo (eds.), La latinidad medieval. Estudios hispánicos 2022, Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2023, pp. 341-360.
«Historische Wechselbeziehungen religiöser Kulturen und Vernunftkritik. Überlegungen zur Transformation philosophischer Rationalitätskonzepte im Religionsdialog des Mittelalters», Historical Interactions of Religious Cultures 1 (2024), pp. 30-49.
«A Catalan Fragment of the Christian-Jewish Disputation of Tortosa (1412–1414)», Translat Library 6/2 (2024), pp. 1-14.
«Giles of Rome, Maimonides and the Errores philosophorum», Medievalia et Humanistica 49 (2024), pp. 87-104.
[With B. Dotson, E.-M. Guggenmos, M. Hanson, S. Homola, Stephan N. Kory, F. Pregadio, S. Rapisarda, P. G. Schmidl, Zhao Lu:] «‘The Käte Hamburger Kolleg IKGF: Insights and Outlooks’ (June 12-14 2023) – Looking Back and Looking Ahead», International Journal of Divination and Prognostication 5 (2024), pp. 10-71.
«Talmud, Condemnation of», in H. Klemettilä & R. Ben Shalom (eds.), Routledge Resources Online – Medieval Studies, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO456-1.
[With M. Lutz-Bachmann:] «Christian Readings of Rabbinic Sources: Preliminary Considerations», in Alexander Fidora and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (eds.), Christian Readings of Rabbinic Sources in Medieval Polemic, Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2024, pp. 1-9.
«Thomas Bradwardine and His Rabbinic Sources», in Alexander Fidora and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (eds.), Christian Readings of Rabbinic Sources in Medieval Polemic, Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2024, pp. 215-233.
«The Confessions of Rabbi Samson de Louhans. An Analysis of the Anti-Talmudic Procedure in Chambéry in 1417», Henoch. Historical and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity 46/2 (2024), pp. 391-417.
«The Anti-Jewish Bookcase at the Time of Benedict XIII. André Dias de Escobar’s Unedited Treatise De publicatione haeresum (ca. 1417) and Its Talmudic Sources», Sefarad 85/1 (2025), pp. 1-20, https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.025.1239.
«The Division of the Sciences in Opus maius IV, 1, 2: Roger Bacon’s Sources and Their Transformation», in Meagan S. Allen (ed.), The Sciences of Roger Bacon’s Opus Maius, London: Routledge, 2026, pp. 42-54.
