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Ken Pennington The Catholic University of America |
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Columbus School of Law and School of Canon LawOffice Hours: Spring 2013: W 12:00-2:30 in 416 Columbus School of Law Office in Canon Law: Caldwell 326-328 (Office Hours by appointment) |
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| Ken Pennington
received his Ph.D. in Medieval History from Cornell University in 1972.
In 1971 he moved from Ithaca to Syracuse, venturing even deeper into the
Upstate New York snow belt. He taught medieval and Renaissance history
at Syracuse University for thirty years. In the Fall of 2001 he moved
his home to The Catholic University of America. His areas of interest
are ancient, medieval, and early modern legal history, the history of
constitutional thought, political theory, church history, history of
universities, and paleography. Ken has the misfortune of coming out of a
Scandinavian gene pool but attempts to correct this biological problem by
spending as much time as possible in Italy. He directs a
School in
Sicily each October at a place called Erice where a faculty and a student
body from Europe and North America look at the history of law in a magical
setting on a mountaintop next to the Mediterranean. During the summer
when he is sailing on Lake Ontario, the Chesapeake,
or the Mediterranean, he
responds very well to being called "captain." He is the author or
editor of fourteen books and over 100 essays. Over the past
sixteen
years, he has used the www. as a tool to teach history in the classroom and
is now convinced that just as pasta should be a part of every meal the web
should be in every classroom.
In his research he has been particularly concerned to illustrate how the norms created by the medieval Ius commune shaped medieval institutions, thought, and society. This page will provide links to his Curriculum vitae and publications, the syllabi of his classes, the History of Medieval Canon Law Project, the International School of the Ius commune at Erice, Sicily, and edited texts of medieval legal works. Click on address to send Email: pennington@cua.edu |
Detail from Tomb of Mondino de' Liuzzi († 1326), sculpted by Roso (Boso) da Parma, Church of San Vitale, Bologna |
Courses
Coimbra, Biblioteca da Universidade 722, fol. 2r |
Syllabus of Law 508 and CL 760 Comparative European Legal History: Roman Law and the Ius commune Spring Semester 2013
This course is video and audio streamed on the internet
Syllabus of Honors Humanities 102: From Charlemagne to Chaucer, Spring 2013
Syllabus of Law 507 and Canon Law 701 History of Canon Law Fall Semester 2012
This course is video and audio streamed on the internet
Syllabus of Canon Law 728N and STRS 728N Medieval Papacy Fall Semester 2012
Syllabus of Canon Law 714A and TRS 727F The History of Medieval Councils Spring Semester 2011
Syllabus for TRS 220 The Church Through the Ages: From St. Paul to Luther Fall Semester 2009
Syllabus for Law 163 CST, Jurisprudence and the Law Fall Semester 2009
History of the Church from Constantine to the Great Schism Fall Semester 2002
Syllabus of Church History 511 Medieval Church History Spring Semester 2002
Syllabus of History 211 (Medieval and Renaissance History) Fall Semester 2000
Syllabus of
History 311(Medieval Civilization: 1100-1300) Spring Semester 2000
Syllabus of History 401(Joan of Arc) Spring 1999
Syllabus of History 401 (Machiavelli) Spring 2000
Syllabus of History 700 (Medieval
Writing, Texts, and Editions) Spring 2001
Syllabus
of History 735, Section 2 (Pope Innocent III)
Lectures
History of Medieval Canon Law |
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Coimbra, Biblioteca da Universidade 722, fol. 2r |
In 1986, Wilfried Hartmann (Universität Tübingen) and Ken Pennington began to organize a team of international scholars to write a new History of Medieval Canon Law. After meetings in San Diego, Bad Homburg (Frankfurt), Rome, the project was launched with over fifty scholars from thirteen countries participating. The first three volumes of the project are published and volume four is in press. Click here for details and for electronic versions of some of the chapters. | |
| As part of this project, we have published a bio-bibliographical guide to early medieval canonical collections, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature, compiled by Lotte Kéry (Washington, D.C. The Catholic University Press, 1999). In retrospect we should have concurrently published this volume on the web as well. The second volume covering the period from 1140 to 1500 will be will be published only on the web (link to the right). Many scholars have already contributed to work, and we hope they will continue to send additions and corrections to the entries. We plan on expanding our survey to 1650. If you send information about jurists working after 1500, we will add your entries (with many thanks). |
Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 671 |
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The following links are to
Johannes Teutonicus's Commentary on Compilatio tertia. I published the first two
books in 1981 (see publications) and am preparing (slowly, I'm afraid) books
three, four, and five for publication. Until the text is ready to be printed, I
shall maintain a corrected and up-dated transcription of Johannes's Commentary
based on the best manuscript, Admont, Stiftsbibliothek 22 on the Web.
Johannis Teutonici Apparatus glossarum in Compilationem tertiam |
Book 3.1 to 3.22 |
| Book 3.23 to End | Book Four |
| Book 5.1 to 5.16 | Book 5.17 to End |
Baldus de Ubaldis
I have been working on the consilia
of Baldus de Ubaldis in the Barberini manuscripts of
the Vatican Library. These manuscripts were originally in Baldus's library and
offer invaluable insights into how he wrote his consilia. The manuscripts
demonstrate how Baldus revised them, sometimes several times. I have edited
three consilia from the Vatican manuscripts that illustrate his methodology.
Finally, Joe Canning and I have had a pleasant and interesting exchange about
whether Baldus believed that the emperor could make absolute, arbitrary
decisions. My latest response is Was Baldus
an Absolutist?
Consilia 1.326-327 (Milan) Consilium 3.279 (Venice)
Consilia 1.328,
1.333 (Milan) 3.280, 3.285 (Venice) Additio to Rex
| These consilia have been placed here to aid scholars who wish to use the computer to search the texts. These texts files did not keep their formatting commands when I put them on the Web; consequently they must be consulted in their published form to understand how Baldus revised, edited, and altered them. See my Curriculum vitae for details on their publication. |
Articles on line
Web publishing has several
advantages over print: an author can update the text and provide signposts in
them that indicate what is particularly important (good for using them in
class). The text is never "fixed". In the following articles I have
added an index at the beginning that highlights the points that I think are most
important. They also differ from the printed versions of the articles in
smaller and larger ways.
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International School of Ius commune Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Sicily
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Manlio Bellomo, Orazio Condorelli, and Ken
Pennington direct the International School of Ius commune each year at
the Ettore Majorana Centre in Erice, Sicily. With faculty and students from
both sides of the Atlantic, Erice has become a focal point for legal history
and the study of Western European law. For information about the next school
click here.
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