Overview
Fedor Nekhaenko is a second-year PhD student at the Department of Medieval Studies. Fedor did his undergraduate degree in philosophy and received training in Manuscript Studies at The Warburg Institute and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. His area of interest includes scholastic theology, Latin paleography, and medieval history.
Research Focus
Fedor is particularly focused on all manifestations of angels ubiquitous in medieval sermons, exempla, theological treatises, philosophical commentaries, and even vernacular romances. In the past, he has published several distinctions about angels from Hugh of Saint-Cher’s "Opus" along with minor essays on Christian faith, medieval subjectivity, and political theology. He is currently working on papers about Alexander of Hales's contribution to angelology and Gerard Odonis’s treatment of demonic magic. Fedor is also participating in collective editorial projects devoted to William of Auxerre’s "Commentum in Anticlaudianum" and Gerard Odonis’s "Reportatio in Secundum Librum Sententiarum". His dissertation project will explore and expose three magisterial lines of the scholastic angelology from the time of Peter Lombard till the age of Gerard Odonis in its historical and institutional context: angelic individuation, location, and miracles.
Courses Taught:
Back to School — Debating in the University (Fall 2025/Spring 2026, FWS)
Publications
2024
Hugo de Sancto Caro. Opus. Liber II. Pars II. Distinctio II, ed. and tr. by F. Nekhaenko. Srednie veka. Studies on Medieval and Early Modern History, vol. 85, no 1, pp. 38–54
Angels in Eternity, while Demons in the Empyrean Heaven? Opus II, Dist. 2 by Hugh of Saint-Cher. Srednie veka. Studies on Medieval and Early Modern History, vol. 85, no 1, pp. 26–37
I Believe because I Trust: The Overturn of Faith in the Scholastic Thought 1250–1350? St. Tikhon’s University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies, vol. 111, pp. 140–145
Between Eternity and Divine Dualism: Hugh of Saint-Cher’s Opus II, Pars I. Schole. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, vol. 18, no 1, pp. 347–381
2023
Angels in Eternity, while Demons in the Empyrean Heaven? Opus II, Dist. 2 by Hugh of Saint-Cher (published as a preprint: https://wp.hse.ru/data/2023/12/05/2110255844/213HUM2023.pdf)
Hugo de Sancto Caro. Questions about Angels and Demons, ed. and trans. from Latin, with annots. by F. V. Nekhaenko. Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics, vol. 7, no 4, pp. 264–286
An Unknown Demonologist at the University of Paris? : The Opus II.7–8 by Hugh of Saint-Cher. Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics, vol. 7, no 4, pp. 241–263
Angeli et Caelum: the Birth of Polis and Cosmos in Medieval Scholastics. The Sociological Review, vol. 22, no 2, pp. 310–319
2022
Carl Schmitt, Erik Peterson, and Giorgio Agamben: the war for Christian political theology. The Sociological Review, vol. 21, no 4, pp. 9–33
Alain de Libera’s Subjectivity between Man and Christ: Reflections on the Book by A. de Libera. Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics, vol. 6, no 4, pp. 163–177