Alexander Carpenter
Deceased Person
0000 – 1612
Who was Alexander Carpenter?
Alexander Carpenter, Latinized as Fabricius, was the author of the Destructorium viciorum, a religious work popular in the 15th and 16th centuries. Some published editions of the work bear the author's name as "Alexander Anglus", but he is further identified in a 1496 edition which states that the work was compiled "a cuiusdam fabri lignarii filio" -- "by a certain son of a worker of wood," i.e., a carpenter's son. This identifier also states that the work was begun in 1429, which rules out authorship by Alexander of Hales which had by some scholars been considered a possibility. Alexander Carpenter authored other works, termed Homiliae eruditae, but they are not at present known.
Carpenter is thought by some to have been a follower of the English theologian John Wycliffe, but that is disputed.
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