Kenneth Pennington
Kenneth Pennington (born October 6, 1941 in Salem ) is an American medieval historian who primarily researches the relationships between ecclesiastical and secular law and medieval lawyers.
Life
He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (BA 1965 and MA 1967) and a Ph.D. 1972 at Cornell University . He taught at Syracuse University as an assistant professor (1971–1975), associate professor (1975–1984), and professor of history from 1984–2001. From 2001 to 2017 he taught as Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History at the Columbus School of Law and The School of Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America . With Manlio Bellomo and Orazio Condorelli , he heads the International School of the Ius commune, Erice , Sicily , which is part of the Centro di Cultura Scientifica Ettore Majorana . Since 2000 he has been a corresponding member of the Central Management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica .
His areas of interest are ancient, medieval and early modern legal history, the history of constitutional thought, political theory, church history, university history and paleography.
Fonts (selection)
- as editor: Johannis Teutonici apparatus glossarum in Compilationem tertiam . Vatican 1981, ISBN 88-210-0570-4 .
- Pope and Bishops. The Papal Monarchy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries . Philadelphia 1984, ISBN 0-8122-7918-2 .
- Popes, Canonists, and Texts 1150-1550 . Aldershot 1993, ISBN 0-86078-387-1
- The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600. Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition . Berkeley 1993, ISBN 0-520-07995-7 .
literature
- as editors Wolfgang Peter Müller and Mary E. Sommar : Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition. A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington . Washington, DC 2006, ISBN 0-8132-1462-9 .
Web links
- Homepage
- Page of emeritus at CUA.
- Pennington, Kenneth . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pennington, Kenneth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pennington, Ken; Pennington, Kenneth J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medieval historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salem |