The Catholic University of America	Canon Law 714A TRS 727F History of the Medieval Councils
Ken Pennington Tuesday 1:10 PM - 3:00 PM Classrooms:  Caldwell 111 and occasionally the Canon Law Seminar Room, Third Floor Mullen Library Office Hours Spring 2011: T 11:30-1:00  (416 Law) Th 12:30-1:30 (326-328 Caldwell) and by appointment	Detail from Tomb of Mondino de' Liuzzi  († 1326), sculpted by Roso (Boso) da Parma, Church of San Vitale, Bologna	Offices:  413 Caldwell Hall Tel. 319-6264 416 Law School Tel. 319-5150  Home tel.: 202-547-3620 Email:  Pennington@cua.edu kenpennington12@verizon.net   (Click on addresses to send Email)

Councils were established in the first three centuries of the Christian Church.  Their canons played a very important role in unifying the Church.  This course will explore the theory and practice of conciliar institutions in local churches and the establishment of ecumenical or general councils.  The function of the council as a court, legislative body, and vehicle for reform will be studied.  The course will examine the councils of the Roman Catholic Church from the third century AD to the Council of Basel in the fifteenth century.  The canons of the council will be studied for their legal and theological contents. 

Required Book:  Norman P. Tanner, The Councils of the Church:  A Short History (New York 2001)  ISBN 0-8245-1904-3  Tanner's book is an excellent overview of conciliar history with excellent bibliographies.  It can be purchased from Amazon.com for $15.95.

Readings

Heinz Ohme, Sources of the Greek Canon Law to the Quinisext Council (692): Councils and Church Fathers

Anne J. Duggan, Conciliar Law 1123-1215: The Legislation of the Four  Lateran Councils

Atria Larson, Early Stages of Gratian’s Decretum and the Second Lateran Council: A Reconsideration

Ken Pennington, Representation in Medieval Canon Law

Ken Pennington, Roman Law at the Papal Curia in the Early Twelfth Century (An analysis of Lateran II's c.9)

Provided text on DVD:  Greek and Latin Texts of the Ecumenical Councils, the Texts of the Councils in the Corpus of Canon Law, and Manuscripts of Early Councils

Topics

1. Councils before Constantine

2. The Constantinian Councils

3. Greek Councils

4. Latin Councils before the Twelfth Century

 5. Latin Ecumenical Councils

6. The Age of Conciliarism

The course will require one research paper that will be due at the end of the semester and ongoing class participation.  Final Essay is due on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Bibliography of Secondary Literature in English

Early Councils and Greek Councils

Davis, Leo Donald. The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787): Their History and Theology. Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgal Press, 1990.

Halfond, Gregory I.  Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768.  Medieval law and its practice, v. 6.  Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010.

Hess, Hamilton. The Early Development of Canon Law and the Council of Serdica. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

         2002.

Laeuchli, Samuel. Power and Sexuality: The Emergence of Canon Law at the Synod of Elvira. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1972.

MacMullen, Ramsay.  Voting About God in Early Church Councils.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2006.  Contents: Introduction -- The

        democratic element -- The cognitive element -- The ’supernaturalist’ element -- The violent element -- Preliminaries -- Councils in action

Meyendorff, John. ""Councils (Ecumenical, 325-787),"  Dictionary of the Middle Ages  3 (1983) 627-631.

Rackman, R. B. The Text of the Canons of Ancyra: The Greek, Latin, Syriac  and the Armenian Versions.   Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006.

Stocking, Rachel L.  Bishops, Councils, and Consensus in the Visigothic Kingdom, 589-633.    History, Languages, and Cultures

        of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.  Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.

Latin Councils

Blumenthal, Uta-Renate.  The Early Councils of Pope Paschal II, 1100-1110 (Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,  43.

        Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978).

The Church, the Councils, & Reform:  The Legacy of the Fifteenth Century,  edited by Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki

        and Christopher M. Bellitto.  Washington, DC:  Catholic University of America Press, 2008.

Gill, Joseph. The Council of Florence (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1959).

Gill, Joseph.  Personalities at the Council of Florence and Other Essays (New York:  Barnes & Noble, 1964).

Loomis, Louise Ropes, Mundy, John Hine and Kennerly M. Woody, editors.  The Council of Constance: The Unification of the Church

        (Records of Civilization:  Sources and Studies, 63.   New York:  Columbia University Press, 1961) Select Sources in Translation.

Oakley, Francis.  The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church, 1300-1870. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2003.

Oakley, Francis.  Council over Pope?  Towards a Provisional Ecclesiology (New York: Herder, 1969).

Oakley, Francis, "Councils, Western (1311-1449),"  Dictionary of the Middle Ages  3 (1983) 642-656.

Pixton, Paul B. "Councils, Western (1215-1274),"  Dictionary of the Middle Ages  3 (1983) 639-642.

Pixton, Paul B. The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216-1245 : Watchmen

        on the Tower (Studies in the History of Christian Thought 64. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

        Cittŕ del  Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2001) 509-535.

Somerville, Robert. The Councils of Urban II, 1: Decreta Claromontensia (Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, Supplementum 1.

        Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1972.

Somerville, Robert. Pope Alexander III and the Council of Tours (Los Angeles: University of California, 1978.

Somerville, Robert. "Councils, Western (869-1179),"  Dictionary of the Middle Ages  3 (1983) 632-639.

Stieber, Joachim W. Pope Eugenius IV, the Council of Basel, and the Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Empire

        (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 13. Leiden:  Brill, 1978.

Tierney, Brian. Foundations of the Conciliar Theory: The Contribution of the Medieval Canonists from Gratian to the Great Schism.

        New Enlarged Edition. Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 81. Leiden-New York-Köln: Brill, 1998.