Robert Somerville
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Robert Eugene Somerville (born 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
) is the Ada Byron Bampton Tremain Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Columbia University
, New York
. He has taught at Columbia since 1969, except for a year at the University of Pennsylvania (1976–1977)
Somerville did his doctoral work under Stephan Kuttner
at Yale University
. He has published widely on the high medieval history of the papacy and of canon law
. He is internationally recognized as an authority on medieval church councils.
Somerville is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the Commission internationale de diplomatique. He is a corresponding member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Munich, and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards, including two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships.
He currently lives in the Upper West Side on Manhattan, New York, and his son, Gregory Somerville, is a sophomore at Columbia College.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
) is the Ada Byron Bampton Tremain Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, New York
New York
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. He has taught at Columbia since 1969, except for a year at the University of Pennsylvania (1976–1977)
Somerville did his doctoral work under Stephan Kuttner
Stephan Kuttner
Stephan George Kuttner , an expert in Canon Law, was recognized as a leader in the discovery, interpretation and analysis of important texts and manuscripts that are key to understanding the evolution of legal systems from Roman law to modern constitutional law.-Biography:Born in Bonn, Germany,...
at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. He has published widely on the high medieval history of the papacy and of canon law
Canon law
Canon law is the body of laws & regulations made or adopted by ecclesiastical authority, for the government of the Christian organization and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law governing the Catholic Church , the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the Anglican Communion of...
. He is internationally recognized as an authority on medieval church councils.
Somerville is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the Commission internationale de diplomatique. He is a corresponding member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Munich, and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards, including two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships.
He currently lives in the Upper West Side on Manhattan, New York, and his son, Gregory Somerville, is a sophomore at Columbia College.
Books
- The Councils of Urban II, Vol. 1: Decreta Claromontensia by Robert Somerville.
- Law, Church, and Society: Essays in Honor of Stephan Kuttner edited by Robert Somerville and Kenneth Pennington.
- Pope Alexander III and the Council of Tours (1163) by Robert Somerville.
- Scotia pontificia: Papal Letters to Scotland before the Pontificate of Innocent III by Robert Somerville ISBN 0198224338
- Florilegium Columbianum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller edited by Robert Somerville and Karl-Ludwig Selig.
- Papacy, Councils and Canon Law in the 11th-12th Centuries by Robert Somerville.
- Paul Oskar Kristeller at Ninety edited by Robert Somerville
- Pope Urban II: The Collectio Britannica, and the Council of Melfi (1089) by Robert Somerville with Stephan Kuttner ISBN 0198205694
- Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity, Selected Translations, 500-1245 by Robert Somerville and Bruce C. Brasington.