Alex J Novikoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex J Novikoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex J |
| FAMILY NAME | Novikoff |
| SIGNATURE | NOVIKOFF A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenyon College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Textual Communities, Textual Selves
Leah Shopkow, The Saint and the Count
Interfaith Dialogue and Disputation in the Medieval Mediterranean
The Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages was a zone of multiple and overlapping identities. In this zone of competing principalities and elites, various groups identified with a particular doctrinal ideology (what we will call "ecumenian"). However, this was also a zone that was characterized by the interpenetration of religious and ethnic communities. Muslims, Jews, and Christians of various denominations and orientations lived amongst each ot…
Suzanne LaVere. Out of the Cloister
Of all the books of the Hebrew Bible, perhaps none was more stimulating to the imagination of medieval commentators than the Song of Songs. The evocative imagery of its poetry and the ambiguity of its message allowed Christian exegetes to read their own preoccupations into the text and thereby speak their restless minds. In particular, the text’s celebration of sensuality allowed a Christian readership to reflect on two contrasting experiences of…
Spencer E. Young. Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris
If we remain under-informed about many crucial aspects of the social history of the early University of Paris, an institution whose beginnings have exercised scholarly minds for almost a century and a half, it is perhaps less because of the lack or unavailability of sources than because of the traditional tendency of intellectual historians to focus on the trees rather than on the forest. But this has improved considerably in recent years, and ma…
In Search of the Truth
In Search of the Truth: A History of Disputation Techniques from Antiquity to Early Modern Times. Olga Weijers. Studies in the Faculty of Arts: History and Influence 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 342 pp. €45. - Volume 68 Issue 2
Judaism and Christian Art
Medieval Culture of Disputation
Through hundreds of published and unpublished sources, Alex J. Novikoff traces the evolution of disputation from its ancient origins to its broader influence in the scholastic culture and public sphere of the High Middle Ages
From dialogue to disputation in the age of Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa is here viewed within the broader context of interfaith relations in Iberia during the thirteenth century. Particular attention is given to Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, his historical and polemic writings, and his relations with multiple communities inside and outside of Spain. The period of Las Navas coincided not only with the military ascendency of Christian Spain, but also with a general evolution from…
Toward a Cultural History of Scholastic Disputation
THE SCHOLASTIC DEBATES OF MEDIEVAL AUTHORS have not fared well among historians.As a subject, they are treated seriously by philosophers and theologians interested in particular points of logic or doctrine, selectively by specialists of medieval learning who focus on particular authors or key ideas, and hardly at all by historians concerned with the wider cultural fabric of medieval society.Popular images of scholastic argumentation have only iso…
Anselm, Dialogue, and the Rise of Scholastic Disputation
The Italian-born Lanfranc of Pavia (c. 1005–89) and his more illustrious pupil and compatriot Anselm of Bec (c. 1033–1109) have long been considered pivotal figures in the theological and especially philosophical developments of the late eleventh century. Long ago dubbed the “father of Scholasticism” on account of his attempts to harmonize reason and faith, Anselm has occasioned increasing scrutiny in recent years as scholars have begun to target…
The Conversion of Herman the Jew
Jean-Claude Schmitt examines a unique and controversial conversion narrative to explore its meaning within the society and culture of its period as well as what it has to tell us about the way historians think and write.
Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom
Between Tolerance and Intolerance in Medieval Spain
The nature of what has been termed "tolerance" and "intolerance" in the historiography of medieval Iberia has, while rarely defined, continued to provide much-employed organizing categories for the field. This paper reviews one focus of that historiography from the nineteenth into the twenty-first century: the relations among Muslims, Jews, and Christians, with respect to tolerance/intolerance and related categories (notably, convivencia). It ana…
Between Tolerance and Intolerance in Medieval Spain
The nature of what has been termed "tolerance" and "intolerance" in the historiography of medieval Iberia has, while rarely defined, continued to provide much-employed organizing categories for the field. This paper reviews one focus of that historiography from the nineteenth into the twenty-first century: the relations among Muslims, Jews, and Christians, with respect to tolerance/intolerance and related categories (notably, convivencia). It ana…
From dialogue to disputation in the age of Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa is here viewed within the broader context of interfaith relations in Iberia during the thirteenth century. Particular attention is given to Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, his historical and polemic writings, and his relations with multiple communities inside and outside of Spain. The period of Las Navas coincided not only with the military ascendency of Christian Spain, but also with a general evolution from…
Anselm, Dialogue, and the Rise of Scholastic Disputation
The Italian-born Lanfranc of Pavia (c. 1005–89) and his more illustrious pupil and compatriot Anselm of Bec (c. 1033–1109) have long been considered pivotal figures in the theological and especially philosophical developments of the late eleventh century. Long ago dubbed the “father of Scholasticism” on account of his attempts to harmonize reason and faith, Anselm has occasioned increasing scrutiny in recent years as scholars have begun to target…
Between Tolerance and Intolerance in Medieval Spain
The nature of what has been termed "tolerance" and "intolerance" in the historiography of medieval Iberia has, while rarely defined, continued to provide much-employed organizing categories for the field. This paper reviews one focus of that historiography from the nineteenth into the twenty-first century: the relations among Muslims, Jews, and Christians, with respect to tolerance/intolerance and related categories (notably, convivencia). It ana…
Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom
The Conversion of Herman the Jew
Jean-Claude Schmitt examines a unique and controversial conversion narrative to explore its meaning within the society and culture of its period as well as what it has to tell us about the way historians think and write.
Anselm, Dialogue, and the Rise of Scholastic Disputation
The Italian-born Lanfranc of Pavia (c. 1005–89) and his more illustrious pupil and compatriot Anselm of Bec (c. 1033–1109) have long been considered pivotal figures in the theological and especially philosophical developments of the late eleventh century. Long ago dubbed the “father of Scholasticism” on account of his attempts to harmonize reason and faith, Anselm has occasioned increasing scrutiny in recent years as scholars have begun to target…
From dialogue to disputation in the age of Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa is here viewed within the broader context of interfaith relations in Iberia during the thirteenth century. Particular attention is given to Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, his historical and polemic writings, and his relations with multiple communities inside and outside of Spain. The period of Las Navas coincided not only with the military ascendency of Christian Spain, but also with a general evolution from…
Toward a Cultural History of Scholastic Disputation
THE SCHOLASTIC DEBATES OF MEDIEVAL AUTHORS have not fared well among historians.As a subject, they are treated seriously by philosophers and theologians interested in particular points of logic or doctrine, selectively by specialists of medieval learning who focus on particular authors or key ideas, and hardly at all by historians concerned with the wider cultural fabric of medieval society.Popular images of scholastic argumentation have only iso…
Judaism and Christian Art
Medieval Culture of Disputation
Through hundreds of published and unpublished sources, Alex J. Novikoff traces the evolution of disputation from its ancient origins to its broader influence in the scholastic culture and public sphere of the High Middle Ages
In Search of the Truth
In Search of the Truth: A History of Disputation Techniques from Antiquity to Early Modern Times. Olga Weijers. Studies in the Faculty of Arts: History and Influence 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 342 pp. €45. - Volume 68 Issue 2
Spencer E. Young. Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris
If we remain under-informed about many crucial aspects of the social history of the early University of Paris, an institution whose beginnings have exercised scholarly minds for almost a century and a half, it is perhaps less because of the lack or unavailability of sources than because of the traditional tendency of intellectual historians to focus on the trees rather than on the forest. But this has improved considerably in recent years, and ma…
Interfaith Dialogue and Disputation in the Medieval Mediterranean
The Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages was a zone of multiple and overlapping identities. In this zone of competing principalities and elites, various groups identified with a particular doctrinal ideology (what we will call "ecumenian"). However, this was also a zone that was characterized by the interpenetration of religious and ethnic communities. Muslims, Jews, and Christians of various denominations and orientations lived amongst each ot…
Suzanne LaVere. Out of the Cloister
Of all the books of the Hebrew Bible, perhaps none was more stimulating to the imagination of medieval commentators than the Song of Songs. The evocative imagery of its poetry and the ambiguity of its message allowed Christian exegetes to read their own preoccupations into the text and thereby speak their restless minds. In particular, the text’s celebration of sensuality allowed a Christian readership to reflect on two contrasting experiences of…
Leah Shopkow, The Saint and the Count
Textual Communities, Textual Selves
Art (10 works) · History (9 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)