Editions

• Pierre Damien, Lettre sur la toute-puissance divine, ed. and tr. A. Cantin (Sources chrétiennes 191), Paris: Cerf, 1972. (The best edition available of De divina omnipotentia, with French translation and commentary. Cantin reproduces the column numbers in Migne’s Patrologia Latina, vol. 145.) (Scholar)
• Pier Damiani, De divina omnipotentia e altri opuscoli, ed. P. Brezzi, tr. B. Nardi (Edizione nazionale dei classici del pensiero italiano 5), Firenze: Vallecchi, 1943. (Critical edition and Italian translation of De divina omnipotentia and some other works.)
• Die Briefe des Petrus Damiani, 4 vols, ed. K. Reindel (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit 4.1–4), München 1983–1993. (Critical edition of Damian’s letters; De divina omnipotentia is Letter 119, in volume 3, 1989, 341–384.) [Reindel edition available online] (Scholar)

English translations

There is an English translation of De divina omnipotentia (Letter 119) in Peter Damian, Letters 91–120, tr. O.J. Blum (The Fathers of the Church. Mediaeval Continuation 5), Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press 1998, 344–386. (Unfortunately, there are mistakes in the translation of some passages of Damian’s treatise which are crucial to its understanding. See the Supplement Document.)

Secondary literature

• Bauke-Ruegg, J., 1998, Die Allmacht Gottes, Berlin: de Gruyter (especially pp. 430–457). (Scholar)
• Binini, I., 2017, Possibility and Necessity in the Philosophy of Peter Abelard, Ph.D. thesis, Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore. (Scholar)
• Cantin, A., 1972, Pierre Damien, Lettre sur la toute-puissance divine. Introduction, texte critique, traduction et notes (Sources chrétiennes 191), Paris: Cerf. (Scholar)
• Dressler, F., 1954, Petrus Damiani. Leben und Werk, Roma: Herder. (Scholar)
• Endres, J.A., 1906, “Die Dialektiker und ihre Gegner im 11. Jahrhundert”, Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 19: 20–33. [Endres 1906 available online] (Scholar)
• –––, 1910, Petrus Damiani und die weltliche Wissenschaft (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters 8.3), Münster: Aschendorff. [Endres 1910 available online] (Scholar)
• Gaskin, R., 1997, “Peter Damian on Divine Power and the Contingency of the Past”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 5: 229–247. doi:10.1080/09608789708570965 (Scholar)
• Gonsette, J., 1956, Pierre Damien et la culture profane, Louvain: Publications Universitaires & Paris: Béatrice-Nauwelaerts. (Scholar)
• Holopainen, T.J., 1996, Dialectic and Theology in the Eleventh Century, Leiden: Brill (especially Ch. 2: “Peter Damian: De divina omnipotentia”, 6–43). (Scholar)
• –––, 1999, “Necessity in Early Medieval Thought: Peter Damian and Anselm of Canterbury”, in Cur Deus Homo, P. Gilbert et al. (eds.), Roma: Herder, 221–234. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “Future Contingents in the Eleventh Century”, in Mind and Modality, V. Hirvonen et al. (eds.), Leiden: Brill, 103–120. doi:10.1163/9789047409670_008 (Scholar)
• Knuuttila, S., 1993, Modalities in Medieval Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “Anselm on Modality”, in The Cambridge Companion to Anselm, B. Davies & B. Leftow (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 111–131. doi:10.1017/ccol0521807468.006 (Scholar)
• McArthur, R., and M. Slattery, 1974, “Peter Damian and Undoing the Past”, Philosophical Studies, 25: 137–141. doi:10.1007/bf00373165 (Scholar)
• McCready, W.D., 2011, Odiosa sanctitas: St Peter Damian, Simony, and Reform, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Scholar)
• Marenbon, J., 1996, “Anselm and the Early Medieval Aristotle”, in Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages, J. Marenbon (ed.), Turnhout: Brepols, 1–19. doi:10.1484/m.rpm-eb.4.000075 (Scholar)
• Moonan, L., 1980, “Impossibility and Peter Damian”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 62: 146–163. doi:10.1515/agph.1980.62.2.146 (Scholar)
• Ranft, P., 2012, The Theology of Peter Damian: “Let Your Life Always Serve as a Witness”, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. (Scholar)
• Remnant, P., 1978, “Peter Damian: Could God Change the Past?”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 8: 259–268. doi:10.1080/00455091.1978.10717050 (Scholar)
• Resnick, I.M., 1992, Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian’s De divina omnipotentia, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)