John of Segovia: Opera minora - edition, translation, and commentary of the smaller works of John of Segovia about Islam and from the period ca. 1450-1458

1453年，君士坦丁堡的陷落震惊了西方基督教世界。当许多拉丁教会的神学家和领袖专注于用军事手段来应对伊斯兰教的威胁时，巴塞尔委员会的一些神学家发展出了非暴力的思想和观念来面对伊斯兰教。在这些学者中，塞戈维亚的约翰（1458年），理事会成员库萨的尼古拉斯（1464年）的朋友，是最重要的一个。他清楚地看到，必须对伊斯兰教作出充分的神学和知识上的回答，而不是军事上的回答。他以书信或论文的形式写了三本关于这个主题的主要作品，这些作品经常在出版物中被讨论。但除了这些文本，他还写了一系列较小的文本。他计划将它们作为文本语料库的一部分，试图借此影响罗马和勃艮第的重要领导人和决策者。到目前为止，只有其中的一些是经过编辑的，所有的都不是从拉丁语翻译过来的。尽管它们的质量和内在的系统价值，但在15世纪西方面对伊斯兰教的方式的写作中，它们几乎没有被阅读或考虑。这些较小的文本和片段是：法理上的错误。指控为首要父母（三）。十六、学术文献肺活量。翻译中的修辞（第二章）。片断翻译是alkorani7。Epistola和Guillielmum de Orliaco。而文本i - vi。以直接或间接的方式针对伊斯兰教，文本七。揭示了当时塞戈维亚的约翰订婚的精神和基督背景。申请人与他人一起编辑了文本I.， II.。在新项目“小歌剧”中，所有文本i - VI。将根据上下文进行编辑、翻译、评论、解释和出版。该版本将在《伊斯兰文集-基督教文集》系列中出版，申请人曾在该系列中出版过塞戈维亚的约翰的主要作品《神圣的角斗士》。申请人将与Jesse D. Mann博士（Drew University, Madison, New Jersey）合作，他已同意贡献文本VII。并附有英文翻译。

In 1453, the Western Christian world was shocked by the fall of Constantinople. While a lot of theologians and leaders of the Latin church focused on a military answer to the threat of Islam, some theologians of the Council of Basel developed non-violent ideas and conceptions how to face Islam. Among those scholars, John of Segovia (d. 1458), a friend of Council fellow Nicolas of Cusa (d. 1464), is one of the most important. He clearly saw the necessity of an adequate theological and intellectual and not military answer to Islam. He wrote three major works on this subject in form of letters or treatises which are often discussed in publications. But besides of these texts, he also wrote a series of smaller texts. He planned them to be a part of the corpus of texts with which he tried to influence important leaders and decision-makers in Rome and Burgundy. Until now, only some of them are edited and all of them are not translated from Latin. Despite of their quality and inner systematic value they are hardly read or taken into account when writing on the Western way of facing Islam in the 15th century. These smaller texts and fragments are:I. Errores legis MahumetiII. Allegationes de peccatis primi parentisIII. XVI Scholastica documentaIV. De spiratione activaV. Praefatio in translationem secundamVI. Fragmenta translationis AlkoraniVII. Epistola ad Guillielmum de Orliaco.While the texts I.–VI. aim at Islam in a direct or indirect way, text VII. reveals the spiritual and Christological background for John of Segovia’s engagement at that time. Together with others the applicant has edited the texts I., II., and VI. In the new project „Opera minora“ all texts I.–VI. will be edited, translated, commented, interpreted, and published together according to their context. This edition will be published in the series Corpus Islamo-Christianum, where the applicant has published John of Segovia’s major work "De gladio divini spiritus".The applicant will work together with Dr. Jesse D. Mann (Drew University, Madison, New Jersey) who has agreed to contribute text VII. with an English translation.