Overview
Fedor is a third-year PhD student in Medieval Studies. He holds degrees in Philosophy from HSE and in Manuscript Studies from PIMS. His area of specialization is medieval philosophy, in particular metaphysics and ethics. He has a special interest in angels insofar as they occasion various philosophical problems.
Research Focus
My dissertation project will focus on the different philosophical aspects of angelology in the Sentences commentaries between 1300 and 1330, with a particular focus on William of Ware, James of Metz, and Gerald Odonis.
Courses Taught:
MEDVL 1101: Aspects of Medieval Culture: Back to School — Debating in the University
Publications
In progress
Gerald Odonis, In Secundum Librum Sententiarum, ed. M. Sorokina, K. Majcherek, and F. Nekhaenko (in preparation for Brepols, CCCM)
William of Auxerre, Commentum in Anticlaudianum. Liber primus, ed. Z. Thomas and F. Nekhaenko
"Angelic Spatial Revolt: Disordering the Heavens at the University of Paris. Chaos and Order in Medieval Philosophy". Acts of the XXIX Annual Colloquium of the SIEPM, Buenos Aires 12-15 September 2025, edited by C. Rusconi and N. Jakubecki. Turnout: Brepols (accepted)
"Metaphysical angelology of Alexander of Hales: the problem of individuation, Paris 1220-1245." Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age (submitted)
William of Ware on aevum. Archa Verbi (submitted)
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