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Ken Pennington The Catholic University of America |
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Columbus School of LawSchool of Theology and Religious Studies Office Hours - Spring 2008: M-W 5:00-6:00 (416 Law) M-W 1:30-2:30 (326-328 Caldwell) and 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 twelve books and over seventy articles. Over the past eleven
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 |
Curriculum vitae (Addresses, Telephone,
Email, and Publications)
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Courses |
Syllabus of Law 508 and CL 760 Comparative European Legal History: Roman Law and the Ius commune Spring Semester 2008
This course is video and audio streamed on the internet
Syllabus for TRS 220 The Church Through the Ages: From St. Paul to Luther Fall Semester 2007
Syllabus of Law 507, TRS 522B, and Canon Law 701 History of Canon Law Fall Semester 2007
This course is video and audio streamed on the internet
Syllabus for Law 111 CST, Jurisprudence and the Law Spring Semester 2007
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 Church History 831
Medieval Papacy Fall Semester 2001
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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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 volumes of the project are now in press. A total of eleven volumes will be published. Click here for details and for electronic versions of some of the chapters. |
| As part of this project, we will publish a bio-bibliographical guide to medieval canonical collections and jurists. The first volume is in press. The second volume covering the period from 1140 to 1500 will be published later. We have placed a draft version of the second volume on the Web for interested scholars. In return, we hope that any additions or corrections to the entries will be sent to us for inclusion. | |
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
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 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. |
in the Classroom and for Research
