Walter Ullmann
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Walter Ullmann was an Austria
n-Jewish scholar, who settled in the United Kingdom
after leaving Austria in the late 1930s. He was a recognised authority on medieval political thought, and in particular legal theory, an area in which he published prolifically.
He had positions at the University of Leeds
, and then from 1949 at the University of Cambridge
. He became Professor of Medieval History, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n-Jewish scholar, who settled in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
after leaving Austria in the late 1930s. He was a recognised authority on medieval political thought, and in particular legal theory, an area in which he published prolifically.
He had positions at the University of Leeds
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...
, and then from 1949 at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. He became Professor of Medieval History, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
.
Works
- The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de PennaLucas de PennaLucas de Penna was a fourteenth century Neapolitan jurist and a judge of the Magna Curia at Naples....
: A Study in Fourteenth-Century Legal Scholarship. (1946) introduction by Harold Dexter Hazeltine - Medieval Papalism. The Political Theories of the Medieval Canonists (1949) 1948 Maitland Lectures
- The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages: A study in the ideological relation of clerical to lay power (1955)
- The Medieval Papacy, St Thomas and Beyond (1960) The Aquinas Society of London, Aquinas Paper No. 35:
- Liber Regie Capelle: A Manuscript in the Bibliotheca Publica, Evora (1961)
- A History of Political Thought: The Middle Ages (1965) as Medieval Political Thought (1972)
- The Relevance of Medieval Ecclesiastical History : An Inaugural Lecture ( (1966)
- The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (1966)
- Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (1966)
- The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship: (1969) The Birkbeck Lectures 1968-9
- A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages (1972)
- Origins of the Great Schism: A Study in fourteenth-century Ecclesiastical History (1972)
- The Future of Medieval History: An Inaugural Lecture.(1973)
- Law and Politics in the Middle Ages. An Introduction to the Sources of Medieval Political Ideas (1975)
- The Church and the Law in the Earlier Middle Ages: Selected Essays (1975)
- Medieval Foundations of Renaissance Humanism (1977)
- Law and Jurisdiction in the Middle Ages: (1988)
Litarature
- Raoul C. Van Caenegem, Legal historians I have known: a personal memoir, in: Rechtsgeschichte, Zeitschrift des Max-Planck Instituts für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 2010, S.252-299.