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Curriculum Vitae – Wolfgang P. Mueller
CURRICULUM VITAE
Wolfgang P. Mueller
Professor, Department of History
Fordham University
Bronx, New York 10458-9993, USA
Ph.: (718) 817-3943 (office)
E-mail: wmueller@fordham.edu
I. EDUCATION
Dr. phil. habil. in Medieval History:
University of Augsburg (Germany)
Ph.D. in Medieval/Early Modern History:
Syracuse University
M.A. in Medieval/Early Modern History:
University of Munich (Germany)
1998
1991
1986
II. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Fordham University, Department of History:
Professor
Associate Professor
University of Kansas, Department of History:
Visiting Assistant Professor
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton:
Research Assistant, School for Historical Research
Co-Editor Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum:
German Historical Institute, Rome (Italy)
University of Augsburg (Germany):
Guest Lecturer in Medieval History
Syracuse University, Department of History:
Research Assistant, History of Medieval Canon Law
Syracuse University, Department of History:
Teaching Assistant in Medieval European History
20112000-2011
1998-2000
1997-1998
1996-1997
2002-2008
1994-1996
1990-1991
1988-1989
III. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Editor, Lexikon des Mittelalters, Artemis & Winkler Publishers:
Zurich (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany)
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IV. RESEARCH
Publications
a) Monographs
3. The Criminalization of Abortion in the West. Its Origins in Medieval Law (Ithaca/NY
and London: Cornell University Press, 2012).
2. Die Abtreibung. Anfänge der Kriminalisierung, 1140-1650 (= Abortion. The Origins of
a Crime, 1140-1650) (Forschungen zur kirchlichen Rechtsgeschichte und zum
Kirchenrecht 24; Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Böhlau, 2000).
1. Huguccio. The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist (Studies in
Medieval and Early Modern Legal History, vol. 3; Washington, DC: CUA Press, 1994;
2nd paperback edition, 2015).
b) Books Edited
4. Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum VII.1: Innozenz VIII. (1484-1492), ed. with
Ludwig Schmugge and Alessandra Mosciatti (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2008).
3. Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition. A Tribute to
Kenneth Pennington, ed. with Mary E. Sommar (Washington, DC: CUA Press, 2006;
2nd paperback edition, 2010).
2. Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum V: Paul II. (1464-1471), ed. with Ludwig
Schmugge, Peter Clarke, and Alessandra Mosciatti (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2002).
1. Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum III: Calixtus III. (1455-1458), ed. with
Ludwig Schmugge (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001).
c) Articles / Essay Contributions
19. – with Monica H. Green and Kathleen Walker-Meikle, “Diagnosis of a ‘Plague‘
Image: A Digital Cautionary Tale“, in: The Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World.
Rethinking the Black Death, ed. Monica Green (Kalamazoo, MI, and Bradford: Arc
Medieval Press, 2015) 209-226.
18. “Whose Constitution? Grass-Roots and Hierarchical Visions of the Late Medieval
Church”, in: Constitutionalism in Europe before 1789. Constitutional Arrangements
from the High Middle Ages to the French Revolution, ed. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
(Oslo: Pax Forlag, 2014) 94-106, 223-227.
17.
“Vergessene
Sozialgeschichte
des
Spätmittelalters.
Das
kanonische
Denuntiationsverfahren” (= Forgotten Social History of the Later Middle Ages.
Canonical Denunciations), in: Kirchlicher und religiöser Alltag im Spätmittelalter, ed.
Andreas Meyer (Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 2010) 111-122.
16. “Toward the First Iconographical Treatise of the West. Huguccio and Sicard of
Cremona”, in: Mélanges en l’honneur d’Anne Lefebvre-Teillard, ed. Bernard
d’Alteroche et al. (Paris: Presses de l’Université Panthéon-Assas [Paris II], 2009)
765-794.
15. “The Summa decretorum of Huguccio”, in: The History of Canon Law in the Classical
Period, 1140-1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, ed. by
Winfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington (CUA Press: Washington/DC, 2008)
142-160.
14. “Violence et droit canonique: les enseignements de la Pénitencerie apostolique (xiiie
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– xvi siècle)” (= Violence and Canon Law. The Evidence of the Papal Court of
Penance, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries), Revue historique 131 (2007) 771-796.
13. “Introduction. Medieval Church Law as a Field of Historical Inquiry”, in: Medieval
Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition. A Tribute to Kenneth
Pennington, ed. Wolfgang P. Müller and Mary E. Sommar (Washington, DC: CUA
Press, 2006) 1-14.
12. - with Gastone Saletnich, “Rodolfo Gonzaga (1452-1495): News on a Celebrity
Murder Case”, in: The Long Arm of Papal Authority, ed. Gerhart Jaritz, Torstein
Jørgensen, and Kirsi Salonen (Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 20052) 157163; revised version of the first edition [Bergen, Budapest, Krems: CEU Press,
20041] 145-150.
11. “The Price of Papal Pardon. New Fifteenth-Century Evidence”, in: Päpste, Pilger,
Pönitentiarie. Festschrift für Ludwig Schmugge zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. by Andreas
Meyer et al. (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004) 457-481.
10. “Pardons for Sexual Misconduct. Ordinary Routine and Papal Intervention in the
Later Middle Ages”, in: The Roman Curia, the Apostolic Penitentiary and the Partes
in the Later Middle Ages, ed. by Kirsi Salonen and Christian Kroetzl (Acta Instituti
Romani Finlandiae, Vol. 28; Rome, 2003) 171-181.
9. “Canon Law versus Common Law. The Case of Abortion in Late Medieval England”,
in: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, ed. by
Kenneth Pennington et al. (Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C, Vol. 9; Vatican City,
2001) 929-941.
8. “Chiesa e monarchia nel regno angioino (1265-1442)” (= Church and Monarchy in the
Angevine Kingdom of Naples, 1265-1442), Archivio storico per le province
napoletane 118 (2000) 63-74.
7. “Die Gebühren der päpstlichen Pönitentiarie (1338-1569)” (= The Fees of the Papal
Court of Penance, 1338-1569), Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven
und Bibliotheken 78 (1998) 189-261.
6. “Signorolus de Homodeis and the Medieval Interpretation of Statutory Law”, Rivista
Internazionale di Diritto Commune 6 (1995) 217-232.
5. “Eine neue Handschrift von Huguccios Agiographia” (= A New Manuscript of
Huguccio’s Agiographia), Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und
Bibliotheken 75 (1995) 545-552.
4. “Huguccio. Canonist, Bishop, and Grammarian?”, Viator 22 (1991) 121-152.
3. “The Recovery of Justinian’s Digest”, Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 20 (1990) 1-29.
2. “Lucretia and the Medieval Canonists”, Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 19 (1989) 1331.
1. “L’Aquila zwischen Staufern und den Anjou. Ein neu aufgefundener Brief Papst
Clemens’ IV. von 1268” (= L’Aquila between the Hohenstaufen and the Anjou. A
Newly Discovered Letter of Pope Clement IV of 1268), Deutsches Archiv für
Erforschung des Mittelalters 44 (1988) 186-195.
0.1 “The Reinvention of Canon Law in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”, in: The
Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law, ed. Anders Winroth and John Wei
(Cambridge University Press; to appear).
0.2 “Courts and Procedures”, in: The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law, ed.
Anders Winroth and John Wei (Cambridge University Press; to appear).
0.3 “The Internal Forum of the Later Middle Ages. A Modern Myth?”, to appear in: Law
and History Review 33 (2015).
0.4. “Yes and No. Late Medieval Dispensations from Canonical Bigamy in Theory and
Practice”, to appear in: Traditio 70 (2015).
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d) Reviews / Notes
15. Review of: A. Larson, Master of Penance. Gratian and the Development of
Penitential Thought and Law in the Twelfth Century (Washington/DC, 2014), in:
Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 94 (2014)
450-451.
14. Review of: Documentazione papale in archivi trentini tra XII e XIII secolo, ed. L.
Eccher (Bologna: il Mulino, 2010), in: The Catholic Historical Review 98 (2012) 185186.
13. Review of: K. Salonen and L. Schmugge, A Sip from the "Well of Grace". Medieval
Texts from the Apostolic Penitentiary (Washington/DC, 2009), in: The Catholic
Historical Review 96 (2010) 309-310.
12. Review of: R. Shaffern, Law and Justice from Antiquity to Enlightenment
(Lanham/MD, 2009), in: The Catholic Historical Review 96 (2010) 280-281.
11. Review of: A. Hetzenecker, Stephan Kuttner in Amerika 1940-1964. Grundlegung
der modernen historisch-kanonistischen Forschung (Berlin, 2007), in: The Catholic
Historical Review 95 (2009) 420-421.
10. Review of: Iuris Historia. Liber Amicorum Gero Dolezalek, ed. V. Colli and E. Conte
(Berkeley/CA, 2008), in: The Catholic Historical Review 94 (2008) 750-751.
9. Review of: C. Radding and A. Ciaralli, The Corpus iuris civilis in the Middle Ages.
Manuscripts and Transmission from the Sixth Century to the Juristic Revival (Leiden,
2007), in: Speculum 83 (2008) 1026-1027.
8. Review of: O. E. Kim, Law and Criminality in the Middle Ages: Academic Essays
(Highland Park/NJ, 2006), in: The Catholic Historical Review 93 (2007) 1019.
7. “Abortion”, in: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. An Encyclopedia (New York,
2006) 4-5.
6. Review of: Uguccione da Pisa, Derivationes, ed. E. Cecchini et al. (Florence, 2004),
in: Speculum 81 (2006) 931-32.
5. "Huguccio", in: Lexikon für Kirchen- und Staatskirchenrecht 2 (2002) 76.
4. Review of: A. Musson (ed.), Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge,
2001) - in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 58 (2002) 759.
3. Review of: Ennio Cortese, Le grandi linee della storia giuridica medievale (Rome,
2002) - in: Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 81
(2001) 673-675.
2. Review of: J. Brundage, Medieval Canon Law (London, 1995) - in: Historische
Zeitschrift 262 (1996) 854-855.
1. "Peter von Blois (der Jüngere)", in: Lexikon des Mittelalters 6 (1993) 1964.
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Select Fellowships & Grants
Grant for the workshop “Westliche und islamische
Jurisprudenz des Mittelalters. Getrennte
Entstehung – Ein Entstehungsmuster?”, FritzThyssen-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany (Euro
10,000)
Marie Curie Senior Researcher Fellowship (for 2 years;
ca. 42,000 Euro annually)
Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf (Germany)
NEH-Summer Seminar "Disease in the Middle Ages"
The Wellcome Institute, London (England)
Research Contract (Euro 9,000)
DHI, Rome (Italy)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Euro 12,000)
Centre for Medieval Studies, Bergen (Norway)
Research Fellowship (Euro 15,000)
Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung, Düsseldorf (Germany)
Faculty Fellowship
Fordham University
Professeur Associé (FF 20,400)
University of Paris XI (France)
Faculty Summer Research Grant
Fordham University
Publication Grant (DM 12,200)
DFG, Bonn (Germany)
Research Grant (twice: DM 43,000 / DM 20,000)
DHI, Rome (Italy)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship (DM 151,000)
DFG, Bonn (Germany)
Research Assistantship, Syracuse University
Graduate Fellowship, Syracuse University
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Other Research Activities
Director, Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum, German
History Institute, Rome (Italy)
Editorial Board Member of Traditio
Referee for University of Toronto Press
The Catholic University of America Press
2010-2011
2007-2011
Memberships in Professional Associations
American Historical Association
Deutscher Hochschulverband (German Academic Association)
Medieval Academy of America
ICMAC (Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio) Advisory Board
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