The Catholic University of America 

Church History TRS 522A 
Canon Law 702

History of the Sources Canon Law

Ken Pennington

Wed. 10:10 AM - 12:00 PM

Classroom:  Canon Law Seminar Room, Mullen Library

Office Hours:

Office Hours - Spring 2008:

M-W 5:00-6:00 (416 Law)

M-W 1:30-2:30 (326-328 Caldwell)

and by appointment

Offices: 
413 Caldwell Hall
Tel. 319-6264
416 Law School
Tel. 319-5150 

Home tel.: 202-547-3620

Email: 
Pennington@cua.edu
kenneth.pennington3@verizon.net
  (Click on addresses to send Email)

Required books:
 

Gratian, Treatise on Laws, Catholic University Press, $14.95


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The following readings are required for the course:

Anders Winroth, The Making of Gratian's Decretum (Cambridge 2000) 

Frederick S. Paxton, Gratian’s Thirteenth Case and the Composition of the Decretum

Ken Pennington, A Short History of Canon Law from Apostolic Times to 1917

Ken Pennington, "Roman and Secular Law in the Middle Ages"

Ken Pennington, "Learned Law, droit savant, gelehrtes Recht:  The Tyranny of a Concept"  

Ken Pennington, Gratian, Causa 19, and the Birth of Canonical Jurisprudence

Ken Pennington, Gratian, Causa 19, and the Birth of Canonical Jurisprudence (Revised)

Anders Winroth's and Titus Lenherr's Analysis of the St Gall Manuscript

John T. Noonan, Catholic Law School - A.D. 1150 (on Causa 29)

Mary E. Sommar, Gratian's Causa VII and the Multiple Recension Theories

 

Medieval Towers in Bologna

Proper forms of citations to Canon and Roman Law from Brundage, Medieval Canon Law (London-New York: 1995)

Resources on the Web

The Manuscripts in the Cathedral Chapter Library of Cologne

Manuscripts in the Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen

Progetto Irnerio (Collegio di Spagna in Bologna)

Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals

Electronic Gratian

Electronic Decretales Gregorii noni

Glossed Corpus iuris canonici (UCLA)

Brasington and Brett Edition of Ivo of Chartres' Panormia

Polycarpus, Collectio canonum

Justinian's Corpus iuris civilis

Gaius' Institutes and Theodosian Code

Marriage Canons in Gratian and the Decretals

Email Requirement

Please email me as soon as possible to both my email addresses:

pennington@cua.edu and  kenneth.pennington3@verizon.net

We will be using email this semester, and I want to have a listserve for the class at CUA and at home.

The course will require one research paper that will be due at the end of the semester and ongoing class participation.

Please bring a laptop with wireless capabilities to each class.   You can borrow a laptop at the circulation desk of Mullen Library.