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Ken Pennington

Syracuse University

Department of History

	rofessor of Medieval History

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. 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, 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 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 Medieval and Renaissance Studies Major at Syracuse University, 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: Penningk@maxwell.syr.edu

Curriculum vitae: Publications	Classes: Syllabi and Web Pages	Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Syracuse University
Legal History: History of Medieval Canon Law: Bio-Bibliographical Guide	Legal History: Johannes Teutonicus, Apparatus to Compilatio tertia; Baldus de Ubaldis, Consilia; Articles	International School of the Ius commune, Erice, Sicily

The Evolution of Legal Norms in Western Jurisprudence

Baldo degli Ubaldi in the Public and Private Forums
Baldus was alive and well in Perugia, September 2000
Let Me Count the Years: The Millennium Fever in Historical Perspective
Law, History and the WWW.
Teaching on the WWW.

Southern Italy in the Ancient and Early Medieval World
Southern Italy in the Medieval and Modern World
Pompeii

History of Medieval Canon Law
	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.
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.	Bio-Bibliographical Guide of Canonists 1140-1500

	Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Studies is an undergraduate, interdiscipinlary major in the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information about the major, Click Here or Email/Telephone the Director and Principal Advisor, Ken Pennington.
Campus Events in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Courses

Law, History and the WWW.

Teaching on the WWW.