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Bio-Bibliographical Guide of Canonists 1140-1500 in its old version remains on this site. The Old Guide has been updated and enlarged. It can be accessed at: Harvard University, Ames Foundation |
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Ken Pennington's Curriculum
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2016 was the
800th Anniversary of the Death of Pope Innocent III. For a Brief
History of Innocent's Pontificate click
here. Norman Doe's Play |
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| Legal History Texts: Johannes Teutonicus, Apparatus to Compilatio tertia; Baldus de Ubaldis, Consilia; Essays | International School of the Ius commune, Erice, Sicily | |
| 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 have been
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 23
years, he has used the www. as a tool to teach history in the classroom
and to give talks outside it. He is convinced that just as pasta should be a part of every meal
the web should be in every classroom. He retired from The Catholic
University on January 1, 2017 and became emeritus. Since then he
spends his time tending Irnerius' and Gratianus' garden.
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 |
Courses
Bishop Gratian Teaching |
Syllabus of Law 507 and Canon Law 701 History of Canon Law Fall Semester 2015
This course is video and audio streamed on the internet. For those wishing to have an introduction to the History of Canon Law, the videos are still there.
Syllabus of Law 508 and CL 760 Comparative European Legal History: Roman Law and the Ius commune Spring Semester 2015
This course is video and audio streamed on the internet. For those wishing to have an introduction to the history of Roman law and its influence on canon law and on European jurisprudence the videos are still there.
Syllabus for TRS 220 The Church Through the Ages: From St. Paul to Luther Fall Semester 2009
Lectures and
Talks
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 five volumes of the project are published and volume six on the early Middle Ages is being prepared for publication. 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). | Bio-Bibliographical Guide of Canonists 1140-1500 in its old version remains on this site. It has been updated and enlarged. It can be viewed at:
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The following links are to Johannes
Teutonicus's Commentary on Compilatio
tertia. I published the first two books in 1981 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. I have also put my more recent essays online on several websites. The most
important is Academia.edu.
You can download or read my essays there.
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Intrrnational 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 |
