Uta-Renate Blumenthal

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Uta-Renate Blumenthal (born December 5, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Uta-Renate Blumenthal studied at Columbia University . In 1969 the bachelor's degree followed, in 1970 the master's degree with the thesis The Merchants of Almein in 14th-century England . The Ph.D. received it in 1973 with the work The Councils of Pope Paschal II. In 1979 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia . From 1973 to 1979 she served as an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University . From 1979 to 1988 she was an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America . Blumenthal has been a full professor there since 1988. In 1988 she was visiting professor at Heidelberg University . She is a member of the Medieval Academy , the American Historical Association, and the Catholic Historical Association .

Her main research interests are canon law in the 11th and 12th centuries (mainly based on handwritten tradition), in particular the investiture controversy and Pope Gregory VII , but also the history of councils and liturgies in the High Middle Ages. Her biography of Gregory VII is considered a standard German work on the history of this reform pope. In it she takes the view, against a research opinion that has been irrefutably valid since Paul Scheffer-Boichorst's statements , that Gregory VII was not a monk , but rather a regular canon.

Fonts

  • Gregory VII Pope between Canossa and church reform. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-89678-198-7 . ( Review )
  • Papal reform and canon law in the 11th and 12th centuries (= Variorum Collected Studies Series. Vol. 618). Ashgate / Variorum, Aldershot et al. 1998, ISBN 0-86078-695-1 (= collected articles).
  • The Investiture Controversy. Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-005899-1 .
  • The early councils of Pope Paschal II. 1100-1110 (= Studies and texts. Vol. 43). Pontifical Inst. Of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 1978, ISBN 0-88844-043-X .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Paul Scheffer-Boichorst: Was Gregory VII a monk? In: German journal for historical science. Volume 11, 1894, pp. 227-241 ( online ).
  2. ↑ See Rudolf Schieffer : Was Gregor VII a monk? In: Historisches Jahrbuch 125 (2005) pp. 351–362.
personal data
SURNAME Blumenthal, Uta-Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin