User:CRolker/Uta-Renate Blumenthal

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Blumenthal in 2004

Uta-Renate Blumenthal (born 1935, in Berlin)"Blumenthal, Uta-Renate, Index entry". Deutsche Biographie. is a German-born American medievalist and expert on canon law history, and professor emerita at the Catholic University of America.

Blumenthal studied at Columbia University where she received her BA (1969), MA (1970) and Ph.D. (1973).[1] From 1973 to 1979 she was assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, then at the Catholic University of America, before becoming a full professor there in 1988.[1] She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 1976/77, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College at Oxford in 1987, and also a visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg in 1988.[1] Since 1996, she has been part of the board of directors of the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law.[2] In 1997, she was elected president of the American Catholic Historical Association.[3] She is a member of the Medieval Academy, and in 2017 was elected fellow of this academy.[4]

Her research focuses on ecclesiastical history and especially canon law in the 11th and 12th centuries, the manuscript tradition of conciliar canons and papal letters, and also liturgy in the High Middle Ages. She is internationally recognized as a leading specialist on the Investiture Controversy and on Pope Gregory VII.[5]

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  1. ^ a b c "Uta-Renate Blumenthal". The Catholic University of America Department of History. February 19, 2010. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
  2. ^ "Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law". www.kuttner-institute.jura.uni-muenchen.de.
  3. ^ "Front Matter". The Catholic Historical Review. 83 (1): I. 1997. JSTOR 25024879. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  4. ^ "Fellows - The Medieval Academy of America". www.medievalacademy.org.
  5. ^ a b Lynch, John (2000). "[Review of Papal Reform and Canon Law in the 11th and 12th Centuries, by U.-R. Blumenthal]". Church History. 69 (1): 169–170. doi:10.2307/3170598. JSTOR 3170598. S2CID 162373891. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  6. ^ Brasington, Bruce C. (2000). "[Review of Papal Reform and Canon Law in the 11th and 12th Centuries, by U.-R. Blumenthal]". The Catholic Historical Review. 86 (1): 103–105. doi:10.1353/cat.2000.0136. JSTOR 25025664. S2CID 159874498. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
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