Kenneth Pennington
Kenneth Pennington (born October 6, 1941 in Salem) is a American medievalist who primarily researches the relationship between ecclesiastical and secular law, and medieval jurists.
Career overview
He earned academic degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (B.A. 1965 and M.A. 1967) and the Ph.D. 1972 from Cornell University. He taught at Syracuse University as Assistant professor (1971–1975), Associate professor (1975–1984), Professor of History (1984–2001). From 2001 to 2017, Pennington 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 directs the International School of the Ius commune, Erice, Sicily, which is part of the Centro di Cultura Scientifica Ettore Majorana. Since 2000, Pennington has been a corresponding member of the Central Directorate of Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
His areas of interest include ancient, medieval, and early modern legal history, history of constitutional thought, political theory, church history, university history, and paleography.
Works
- Johannis Teutonici apparatus glossarum in Compilationem tertiam (1981; editor)
- Pope and Bishops. The Papal Monarchy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (1984)
- Popes, Canonists, and Texts 1150–1550 (1993)
- The Prince and the Law, 1200–1600. Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition (1993)
References
- Wolfgang Peter Müller & Mary E. Sommar (eds.), Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition. A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington. Washington, D.C: Catholic University of America Press (2010).
