Kenneth Pennington
Professor of Law
Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical History
pennington@law.edu
Class Web Site
Ken Pennington received his Ph.D. in Medieval History from Cornell University in 1972. In 1971 he moved from Ithaca even deeper into the snow belt and began teaching at Syracuse. In the fall of 2001, he moved his home to the Catholic University of America. He holds the Kelly-Quinn Chair of Ecclesiastical and Legal History in the Columbus School of Law and The School of Religious Studies. 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 and the Chesapeake, he responds very well to being called "captain." He is the author or editor of twelve books and over seventy articles. Over the past four years, he has used the the internet 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 International School of the Ius commune at Erice, Sicily, and edited texts of medieval legal works.
BOOKS
Popes, Canonists, and Texts 1150-1550 (Collected Studies Series 412). Aldershot: Variorum, 1993.
The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition.
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 1993. Designated a "Centennial Book" by the University of California Press.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Berkeley 1980 (Monumenta iuris canonici, Series C, vol. 7). Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1985. (edited with S. Kuttner).
Pope and Bishops: The Papal Monarchy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (The Middle Ages). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.
Johannis Teutonici Apparatus glossarum in Compilationem tertiam (Monumenta iuris canonici, Series A, vol. 3.1). Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1981.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Salamanca 1976 (Monumenta iuris canonici, Series C, vol. 6). Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1980 (edited with S. Kuttner).
Law, Church and Society: Essays in Honor of Stephan Kuttner (The Middle Ages).
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977 (edited with R. Somerville).
EDITORIAL PROJECTS AND SERIES
History of Medieval Canon Law, Catholic University Press of America (edited with Wilfried Hartmann, Universität Tübingen)
Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature, compiled by Lotte Kéry, 2000.
Papal Letters in the Early Middle Ages, Detlev Jasper and Horst Fuhrmann, 2001.
The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140-1234, In Press.
Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, Catholic University Press of America
1. The Two Laws: Studies in Medieval Legal History Dedicated to Stephan Kuttner, edited by Laurent Mayali and Stephanie Tibbetts, 1990.
2. Gratian, The Treatise on Laws, trans. by Augustine Thompson, James Gordley, with an introduction by Katherine Christensen, 1993.
3. Wolfgang P. Müller, Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist, 1994.
4. Manlio Bellomo, The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000-1800, 1995.
5. Elizabeth Makowski, Canon Law and Cloistered Women: Periculoso and Its Commentators 1298-1545, 1997.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
"The Decretists: The Italian School," A History of Medieval Canon Law, edd. Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America), In Press.
"The Decretalists, 1190 to 1234," A History of Medieval Canon Law, edd.Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America), In Press.
"Decretal Collections, 1190-1234," A History of Medieval Canon Law, edd. Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America), In Press.
"Pope Alexander III," Notable Popes: A Biocritical Source Book, ed. Frank J. Coppa (Greenwood Press), In Press.
"Innocent III and the Ius commune," Grundlagen des Rechts: Festschrift für Peter Landau zum 65. Geburtstag, herausgegeben von Richard Helmholz, Paul Mikat, Jörg Müller, Michael Stolleis (Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Görres-Gesellschaft, NF 91; Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2000): 349-366.
"Nicholaus de Tudeschis (Panormitanus)," Niccolò Tedeschi (Abbas Panormitanus) e i suoi Commentaria in Decretales, ed. Orazio Condorelli (Roma: Il Cigno Galileo Galilei, 2000): 9-36.
"Due Process, Community, and the Prince in the Evolution of the Ordo iudiciarius," Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 9 (1998): 9-47.
"The History of Rights in Western Thought," Emory Law Journal 47 (1998): 237-252.
"Allegationes, Solutiones, and Dubitationes: Baldus de Ubaldis' Revisions of his Consilia," Die Kunst der Disputation: Probleme der Rechtsauslegung und Rechtsanwendung im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert, ed. Manlio Bellomo (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Kolloquien 38; München: R. Oldenbourg, 1997): 29-72.
"Baldus de Ubaldis," Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 8 (1997) 35-61
"The Spirit of Legal History," The University of Chicago Law Review 64 (1997): 1097-1116.
"Roman and Secular Law," Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, edd. F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 1996): 254-266.
"Interpretation of Privileges: Raoul of Chennevières's Repetition to Volentes (VI 5.7.1)," De iure canonico medii aevi: Festschrift für Rudolf Weigand (Studia Gratiana 27; Rome: 1996): 465-480.
"The Pazzi Conspiracy and the Jurists," Cristianità ed Europa: Miscellanea di studi in onore di Luigi Prosdocimi. Ed. Cesare Alzati. (1 Volumes in 2 parts. Roma-Freiburg-Wien: Herder, 1994) Volume 1.2: 635-648.
"Learned Law, Droit Savant, Gelehrtes Recht: The Tyranny of a Concept," Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 5 (1994): 197-209. and Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 20 (1994): 205-215.
"Enrico da Susa, detto l'Ostiense (Hostiensis, Henricus de Segusio o Segusia)," Dizionario biografico degli Italiani 42 (Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1993) 758-763 and in English AHenricus de Segusio (Hostiensis),@ Popes, Canonists, and Texts 1150-1550 (Collected Studies Series 412; Aldershot: Variorum, 1993) article XVI.
"Stephan Kuttner," Der Einfluss deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland: Vorträge und Referate des Bonner Symposions im September 1991. Edd. Marcus Lutter, Ernst C. Stiefel, and Michael H. Hoeflich. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1993: 361-364.
"Medieval Law," Medieval Studies: An Introduction, ed. James M. Powell (2nd Ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992): 333-352.
"The Authority of the Prince in a Consilium of Baldus de Ubaldis," Studia in honorem Eminentissimi Cardinalis Alfonsi M. Stickler, ed. Rosalio Iosepho Card. Castillo Lara (Studia et Textus Historiae Iuris Canonici 7; Rome: Libreria Ateneo Salesiano, 1992): 483-515.
"Henry VII and Robert of Naples," Das Publikum politischer Theorie im 14. Jahrhundert, ed. Jürgen Miethke, with help of Arnold Bühler (Schriften des Historisches Kolleg, Kolloquien 21; München: R. Oldenbourg, 1992): 81-92.
"Il diritto dell'accusato: L'origine medievale del regolare procedimento legale," La parola all'accusato, edd. Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Palermo: Sellerio, 1991): 33-41.
"Lotharius of Cremona," Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 20 (1990): 43-50. Reprinted in Miscellanea Domenico Maffei dicata: Historia-Ius-Studium, edd. Antonio García y García and Peter Weimar (Goldbach: Keip Verlag, 1995) Volume 1: 231-238.
"Gregory IX, Emperor Frederick II, and the Constitutions of Melfi," Popes, Teachers and Canon Law in the Middle Ages: Festschrift for Brian Tierney, edd. Stanley Chodorow and James Ross Sweeney (Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1989): 53-61.
"Panormitanus's Lectura on the Decretals of Gregory IX," Fälschungen im Mittelalter: Internationaler Kongreß der Monumenta Germaniae Historica München, 16.-19. September 1986: Gefälschte Rechtstexte: Der bestrafte Fälscher (Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica 33.1-6; Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1988) Vol. 2, 363-73.
"The Consilia of Baldus de Ubaldis," Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 56 (1988): 85-92.
"Johannes Andreae's Additiones to the Decretals of Gregory IX," Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung 74 (1988): 328-347.
"Law, Legislative Authority, and Theories of Government, 1150-1300," The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c. 350-c. 1450, ed. J.H. Burns (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988): 424-53. French Translation in: Histoire de la pensée politique médiévale 350-1450. Ed. J.H. Burns; Trans. Jaques Ménard (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1993): 428-49.
"An Earlier Recension of Hostiensis's Lectura on the Decretals," Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 17 (1987): 77-90.
"A `Quaestio' of Henricus de Segusio and the Textual Tradition of his `Summa super decretalibus'," Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 16 (1986): 91-96.
"Epistolae Alexandrinae: A Collection of Pope Alexander III's Letters," Miscellanea Rolando Bandinelli, papa Alessandro III, ed. Filippo Liotta (Accademia senese degli Intronati; Siena: 1986): 337-353.
"The Epitaph of Johannes Teutonicus," Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 13 (1983): 61-62.
"Johannes Teutonicus and Papal Legates," Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 21 (1983): 183-94.
"The Making of a Decretal Collection: The Genesis of Compilatio tertia," Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Salamanca 1976 (Vatican City: 1980): 67-92.
"Pro peccatis patrum puniri: A Moral and Legal Problem of the Inquisition," Church History 47 (1978) 137-54
"Cum causam que: A Decretal of Innocent III," Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 7 (1977): 100-03.
"Pope Innocent III's Views on Church and State: A Gloss to Per venerabilem," Law, Church and Society (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977): 49-67.
"A Note to Decameron 6.7: The Wit of Madonna Filippa," Speculum 52 (1977): 902-05.
"Pluralism and the Canonists in the Thirteenth Century," Speculum 51 (1976): 35-48.
"The French Recension of Compilatio tertia," Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 5 (1975): 53-71.
"The Manuscripts of Johannes Teutonicus' Apparatus to Compilatio tertia: Some Considerations on the Stemma," Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 4 (1974): 17-31.
"The Legal Education of Pope Innocent III," Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 4 (1974): 70-77.
"The Rite for Taking the Cross in the Twelfth Century," Traditio 30 (1974): 429-35.
"The Libellus of Telesphorus and the Decretals of Gregory IX," The Courier of the Syracuse University Library 11 (1973): 17-26.
"Summae on Raymond de Pennafort's Summa de casibus in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich," Traditio 27 (1971): 471-80.
"A `Consilium' of Johannes Teutonicus," Traditio 26 (1970): 435-40.
"Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Tradition of Medieval Law," Church History 39 (1970): 149-61.
ENCYCLOPEDIA AND DICTIONARY ARTICLES
200 entries for the The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd Edition, New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, for the Section 20, Medieval Europe: Church and Intellectual History
16 Biographies of Popes in The World Book Encyclopedia (1989 edition): Adrian IV, Alexander III, Boniface VIII, Clement VII, Eugene III, Gregory VII, Gregory IX, Gregory X, Honorius III, Innocent III, Innocent IV, John XXII, John XXIII, Leo IX, Martin V, Urban VI
"Vincentius Hispanus," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1988): vol. 12, 455-56 .
"Petri exceptiones," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1987): vol. 9, 544.
"Maxims, Legal," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1987): vol. 8, 231-32.
"Innocent III," The Encyclopedia of Religion (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987): vol. 7, 248-50.
"Law, Procedure of: 1000-1500," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1986): vol. 7, 502-06.
"Law Codes: 1000-1500," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1986): vol. 7, 425-31.
"Laurentius Hispanus," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1986): vol. 7, 385-86.
"Johannes Teutonicus," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1986): vol. 7, 121-22.
"Huguccio," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1985): vol. 6, 327-28.
Gratian," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1985): vol. 5, 656-58.
"Corpus iuris civilis," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: 1983): vol. 3, 608-10.
"Codex Theodosianus," Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Joseph Strayer (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983): vol. 3, 475.
"Bistum," Lexikon des Mittelalters (München: Artemis Verlag, 1981): vol. 2, 251-53.
"Bischof," Lexikon des Mittelalters (München: Artemis Verlag, 1981): vol. 2, 228-33.
REVIEWS
Löfstedt, Gratiani Decretum: La traduction en ancien français du Décret de Gratien, 3: Causae 15-29 in Speculum 74 (1999): 171-172.
Fornasari, Medioevo riformato del secolo XI: Pier Damiani e Gregorio VII. in Speculum 74 (1999): 164-165.
Paravicini Bagliani, Il trono di Pietro in Speculum 74 (1999): 238-240.
Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000 in Speculum 73 (1998): 816-818.
Brundage, Medieval Canon Law in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 49 (1998): 339-341.
Davis, ed. Origins of Modern Freedom in The English Historical Review 112 (1997): 1031-1032.
Monahan, From Personal Duties towards Personal Rights in Law and History Review 15 (1997): 356-357.
Fransen, Summa`Elegantius in iure diuino', part IV, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 47 (1996): 151.
Cohen, The Crossroads of Justice: Law and Culture in Late Medieval France in The Historian 59 (1996): 182-183.
Migliorino, In terris ecclesiae in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung 82 (1996): 424-426.
Vauchez, A. et al. Histoire du christianisme des origines à nos jours: 5: Apogée et expansion de la chrétienté (1054-1274) in Speculum 70 (1995): 439-442.
Gaudemet, La doctrine canonique médiévale in The Catholic Historical Review 71 (1995): 417-419.
William of Ockham, A Short Discourse on the Tyrannical Government, ed. McGrade and Kilcullen, in Parergon 13 (1995): 186-189.
Parish and Sullivan, Bartolomé de las Casas: The Only Way in Journal of Church and State 37 (1995): 907-908.
Schmidt, Der Bonifaz-Prozeß in Historische Zeitschrift 258 (1994): 167-168.
Landau, Officium und Libertas christiana in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 45 (1994): 170-171.
Scholz, Transmigration und Translation in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 45 (1994): 486-489.
Glöckner, Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur in Cristianesimo nella storia 15 (1994): 689-692.
Bertolino, et al. ed. Diritto canonico e comparazione in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 50 (1994): 737.
Fell, Origins of Legislative Sovereignty, 4: Medieval or Renaissance Origins? in American Historical Review 98 (1993): 153-154.
Georgi, Friedrich Barbarossa in The International History Review 15 (1993): 144-145.
The Church and Sovereignty, c. 590-1918 in The Catholic Historical Review 79 (1993): 719-720.
Danusso, Ricerche sulla Lectura feudorum di Baldo degli Ubaldi in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 49 (1993): 348.
Melloni, Innocenzo IV in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 43 (1992): 147.
Borgolte, Petrusnachfolge und Kaiserimitation in American Historical Review 97 (1992): 823.
Belloni, Le questioni civilistiche in Speculum 67 (1992): 931-933.
Bellomo, L'Europa del diritto comune in American Historical Review 96 (1991): 1189.
Meduna, Studien zum Formular der päpstlichen Justizbriefe in The Catholic Historical Review 77 (1991): 678-79.
Bellomo, Scuole diritto e società in American Historical Review 95 (1990): 480-81.
Linehan, ed. Proceedings of Seventh International Congress of Medieval Canon Law in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 41 (1990): 297-99.
Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy in The Catholic Historical Review 76 (1990): 342.
Heft, John XIII and Papal Teaching Authority in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 46 (1990): 268.
Godding, Le droit privé dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 46 (1990): 674.
Opll, Stadt und Reich im 12. Jahrhundert in American Historical Review 94 (1989): 113-114.
Stürner, Peccatum und Potestas in American Historical Review 94 (1989): 737.
Strömholm, A Short History of Legal Thinking in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 45 (1989): 282.
Quaritsch, Souveränität in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 45 (1989): 283-84.
Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 45 (1989): 289.
Vodola, Excommunication in the Middle Ages in Speculum 63 (1988): 242-44.
Migliorino, Fama e infamia in American Historical Review 93 (1988): 131.
Bartlett, Trial by Fire and Water in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 39 (1988): 263-66.
Akten des 26. Deutschen Rechtshistorikertages in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 44 (1988): 657.
Sayers, Pope Honorius III and England in The Catholic Historical Review 73 (1987): 317-18.
Laudage, Priesterbild und Reformpapsttum in Speculum 62 (1987): 695-96.
Mordek, Aus Kirche und Reich in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung 73 (1987): 363-69.
Maleczek, Papst und Kardinalskolleg in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung 73 (1987): 381-84.
Sturm-Maddox, Petrarch's Metamorphoses in Speculum 62 (1987): 996-98.
Ferruolo, Origins of the University in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 43 (1987): 342-43.
Imkamp, Kirchenbild Innocenz' III. in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung 72 (1986): 417-428.
Landi, Il papa deposto (Pisa 1409) in American Historical Review 91 (1986): 1181-82.
Black, Guilds and Civil Society in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 42 (1986): 707-08.
Oakley, Omnipotence, Covenant, & Order in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 42 (1986): 737-38.
Davis, Dante's Italy in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 42 (1986): 741-42.
Berman, Law and Revolution in The American Journal of Comparative Law 33 (1985): 546-48.
Imkamp, Kirchenbild Innocenz' III. in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 36 (1985): 653-55.
Kuttner, Gratian and the Schools of Law in American Journal of Legal History 29 (1985): 271-72.
Ziese, Wibert von Ravenna in American Historical Review 90 (1985): 1175-76.
Hilpert, Kaiser- und Papstbriefe in den Cronica majora des Matthaeus Paris in Speculum 59 (1984): 159-60.
Wettengel, Der Streit um die Vogtei Kelkheim in Speculum 58 (1983): 856-57.
Laufs, Politik und Recht in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung 69 (1983): 409-12.
Muldoon, Popes, Lawyers and Infidels in The Catholic Historical Review 68 (1982): 300-02.
Horst, Die Kanonessammlung Polycarpus in Speculum 57 (1982): 190.
Tierney and Linehan, Authority and Power in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung 68 (1982): 483-87.
Marcus, An Allegory of Form in Speculum 56 (1981): 890.
Schubert, König und Reich in American Historical Review 85 (1980): 1185-86.
Beumann, Sigebert von Gembloux in Speculum 54 (1979): 545-46.
Ullmann, Law and Politics in Speculum 52 (1977): 752.
Boockmann, Johannes Falkenberg in Speculum 52 (1977): 925-26.
Monaco, Il De officio collectoris in Speculum 51 (1976): 338-40.
Russell, The Just War in Canadian Journal of History 11 (1976): 367-70.