Professor Mary Sommar, Ph.D., Publications, November 2005
The Changing Role of the Bishop in Society: Episcopal Translation in the Middle Ages
(Syracuse University Dissertation 1998; UMI 1999).
“Dionysius Exiguus’ Creative Editing,” in Proceedings of the XII International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Washington, D.C. August 1-7, 2004, ed. K.Pennington (Monumenta Iuris Canonici; Vatican City, in press).
“Gratian's Causa VII and the Multiple Recension Theories,” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 24 (2000) 83-101.
Reviewed in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 59 (2003) 769.
“Hincmar of Reims and the Canon Law of Episcopal Translation,” The Catholic Historical Review 88(2002) 293-309.
Reviewed in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 59 (2003) 357-358.
“Pragmatic Application of Proto-Canon Law: Episcopal Translation,” Confrontation in Late Antiquity, ed. L.J.Hall (Cambridge: Orchard Academic, 2003) 89-101.
Review of: Constantin Fasolt, The Limits of History, Chicago 2000, in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 61 (2005). (In press.)
Review of: John Witte, Jr., Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation, Cambridge 2002, in Journal of Lutheran Ethics (February 2004).
Review of: Barbara Abou-el-Haj, The Medieval Cult of the Saints, Cambridge 1994, in Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 53 (1997) 651.
A Seventeenth-Century Scholar Comments on the
Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen Gratian Text (Codex 673), BMCL 26 (2004-5) (in press)
“From Dionysius to Gratian: the Voice of ‘Change’,” XII International Congress of Medieval Canon
Law, Washington, D.C. August 1-7, 2004.
“Die Arbeitsweise der frühen Dekretisten,” presented to the Leopold Wenger Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, June 12, 2004.
“Law in the Middle Ages,” The Philosophical and Literary Society, Wartburg College,
Waverly, Iowa, March 14, 2003.
“Anastasius Bibliothecarius and Canon Law,” Twenty-Third International Medieval Conference at
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2-5, 2002.
“Hincmar of Reims' Letter De quibus apud: Influence on the Development of the Canon Law of Episcopal
Translation” XI International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Università di Catania, Catania,
Sicily, July 30 - August 6, 2000.
“A Man of `Learning and Eloquence´: Rather of Verona,” “Genus Regale et
Sacerdotale”: the Image of the Bishop Around the Millennium, University of Chicago, October 28-30, 1999.
"Pragmatic Application of Proto-Canon Law: Episcopal Translation" Second International Interdisciplinary Conference on Late
Antiquity, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March, 1997.