Alexander Carpenter, Latinized as ''Fabricius'' (''fl.'' 1429), 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''" ("Alexander the Englishman"), 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 Alexander of Hales (also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius ; 21 August 1245), also called ''Doctor Irrefragibilis'' (by Pope Alexander IV in the ''Bull De Fontibus Paradisi'') and ''Theologorum Monarcha'', was a Franciscan friar, theologian a ...

(''ca.'' 1185-1245) which had by some scholars been considered a possibility. Alexander Carpenter authored other works, termed ''Homiliae eruditae'' ("Learned Sermons"), but they are not at present known. Carpenter is thought by some to have been a follower of the English theologian

John Wycliffe John Wycliffe (; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; 1328 – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, biblical translator, reformer, Catholic priest, and a seminary professor at the University of ...

(''ca.'' 1328-1384), but that is disputed. John Bale, ''Scriptorum illustrium maioris Britanniae, quam nunc Angliam et Scotiam vocant, catalogus'' Catalogue of the Famous Writers of Great Britain, now called England and Scotland" Basel: 1557-1559, vol. II, p. 566.

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