1. Heinrich Finke, Aus den Tagen Bonifaz VIII (Munster: Druck und Verlag der
Aschendorffschen Buchhandlung, 1902); P. Diepgen, Arnold von Vilanova als Politiker und
Laientheologe (Berlin-Leipzig: Abhandlungen zur mittleren und neuren Geschichte,
1909). Important works include M. Mendenez Pelayo, Historia de los Heterodoxos
Espanoles (Madrid: 2nd ed., 1918), 179-225; Jose M. Pou y Marti, Visionarios, Beguinos,
y Fratricelos in Archivo Ibero-Americano 6 (1919): 143-221. See also the various
publications of J. Carreras Artau and M. Battlori, editors of Arnald of Vilanova's Obres
Catalanes, 2 vols. (Barcelona: Editorial Barcino, 1947). Important bibliographic information
may be found in R. Verrier, Estudes sur Arnaud de Vilenueve. 2 vols. (Leiden, 1947),
which offers a glimpse of the culture of Arnald's time. The articles of Raoul Manselli have added a
new dimension to Arnaldian studies. See especially "Un Compagno di Strada: Arnaldo da
Vilanova" in Spirituali e Beghini in Provenza, Instituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo
(Rome, 1959), and his La Religioso di Arnaldo da Vilanova in Bulletino dell'Instituto
Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo ed Archivo Muratoriano, 63 (1951): 1-100. And finally,
Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental
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Science, III (New York, 1934): 52-85; George Sarton, Introduction to
the History of Science (London, 1931), II: 2, 892-900; Michael McVaugh, "Arnald of
Vilanova and Bradwardine's Law," Isis, 58 (1967).
2. Franz Pelster, "Die Questio Heinrichs von Harclay ueber die Zweite Ankunft Christi
und Die Erwartung des Baldigen Weltendes zu Anfang des XIV Jahrhunderts," in Archivo
Italiano per la Storia della Pieta, 1 (1951): 25-82. Pelster's account of Arnald's arrest is to be
found on pp. 32-37.
3. Michael McVaugh, "Arnald of Vilanova," in Dictionary of Scientific
Biography, ed. in chief Charles Coulston Gillespie (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1976), 291.
4. Michael McVaugh, Arnaldia di Vilanova Opera Omnia (Granada: Seminarium
Historiae Medicae Granatensis, 1985).
5. Joachim Carreras y Artau, "Proleg," Les Obres Mediques D'Arnau de Vilanova
(Barcelona: Editorial Barcino, 1947), 11.
6. See note 1 for references to works by Thorndike, Sarton, and McVaugh. The most
recent major work on Arnald's medical writings is McVaugh's edition Arnaldia de Vilanova
Opera Medica Omnia.
7. The number and extent of recent bibliographies on these subjects are some indication
of current interest in heresy and apocalyptic thought in the Middle Ages. See Bernard McGinn,
"Awaiting an End," Medievalia et Humanistica (1983); Carl T. Berkhout and Jeffery B.
Russell, Medieval Heresies: A Bibliography 1960-1979 (Toronto: 1979); or Hillel
Schwartz, "The End of the Beginning: Millennian Studies, 1969-1975," Religious Studies
Review, 2 (1976): 1-15.
8. Carreras y Artau, Obres Catalanes, vol. I, includes a bibliography of Arnald's
theological works in Catalan and a commentary on the tentative nature of their dating.
9. Harold Lee, "Scrutamini Scripturas: Joachimist Themes and Figurae in the Early
Religious Writing of Arnald of Viianova," in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld
Institutes, 37 (1974): 33-56. Manselli,
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Spirituali e Beghini, 59.
10. Pou y Marti, Visionarios, 171-73, 200-203. Gordon Leff, Heresy in the
Later Middle Ages 2 vols. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967), 1: 178 ff.
compares Arnald's writing style with that of Olivi.
11. Joaquin Carreras y Artau, "Arnaldo de Vilanova, Apologista Antijudaico," in
Sefarad, 7 (1947): 49-61.
12. Carreras y Artau cites Baer's Historia de los judios in la Espana christiana, 1:
345, n. 70, in "... Apologista Antijudaico," 61.
13. Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Mysticism (London: 1955), 133 (qtd. in
Lee 55).
14. Joaquin Carreras y Artau, "La 'Allocutio Super Tetragrammaton' de Arnaldo de
Vilanova," Sefarad, 9 (1949): 75-105.
15. Arnald of Vilanova, Expositio Super Apocalypsi, ed. Joaquin Carreras y
Artau (Barcelona: Institut D'Estudis Catalans, 1971), I: 11, 595-605.
16. As Leff rightly points out, Joachimist belief in a thousand-year reign of peace on
earth before the Last Judgement is not repeated in Arnald's theory. For him the seventh age leads
directly to the Last Judgement. See Leff, Heresy, 179, n. 1. This point is also studied by E.
Benz, "Die Geschichtetheologie der Franziskanerspiritualen des 13 und 14 Jahrhunderts,"
Zeitschrift fur Kirchengeschichte, LII (1932): 108-10.
17. Bernard McGinn, "Angel Pope and Papal Antichrist" in Church History, 47
(1978): 165.
18. A point made by Leff in Heresy, 178.
19. Arnald's reforming impulse is described in Raoul Manselli, "Arnald da Vilanova e i
Papi di suo Tempo tra Religione e Politica," in Studi Romani VII (1959): 146-61.
20. Bernard McGinn explores the notion of these opposing forces in "Angel Pope," pp.
155-73.
21. Carreras y Artau, Praefatio xvii, n.3.
22. See Pelster on this point.
