Section

Department of History & Philosophy


ROBERT C. FIGUEIRA
Professor of History
figueira@lander.edu
864-388-8218 (o)
864-229-6391 (h)

COURSES

HIST 102      Western Civilization 1600-1918
HIST 301      The Italian Renaissance
HIST 326      Ancient World
HIST 327      Early Middle Ages
HIST 328      High Middle Ages
HIST 329      Late Middle Ages
HIST 330      Robin Hood - Fact, Fiction, and Film
HIST 335      The Crusades: A Chapter in Global Conflict
HIST 355      Late Antiquity
HIST 441      Special Topics: Medieval Mentalities
HIST 490      Internship
HIST 499      History Thesis

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
(excluding book reviews and book notes)

Edited Collected Studies:
  • Plenitude of Power: The Doctrines and Exercise of Authority in the Middle Ages. Essays in Memory of Robert Louis Benson (Aldershot, U.K., 2006)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
  • “The Medieval Papal Legate and His Province: Geographical Limits of Jurisdiction,” Plenitude of Power: The Doctrines and Exercise of Authority in the Middle Ages. Essays in Memory of Robert Louis Benson, ed. Robert C. Figueira (Aldershot, U.K., 2006), pp. 74-105 (earlier version published in Apollinaris. Commentarium Instituti Utriusque Iuris 61:1988, pp. 817-60)

  • “Papal Corporality and the Papacy’s Immortality” (review article on Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, The Pope’s Body), The Catholic Historical Review 89:2003, pp. 732-40

  • “Gregory IX,” The Great Popes Through History: An Encyclopedia, ed. Frank J. Coppa (Westport and London 2002), v. 1, pp. 133-53

  • “Papal Reserved Powers: Some Decretist Texts,” Grundlagen des Rechts. Festschrift für Peter Landau zum 65. Geburtstag, eds. Richard H. Helmholz, Paul Mikat, Jörg Müller, and Michael Stolleis; Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Görres-Gesellschaft, N.F. 91 (Paderborn - München - Wien - Zürich 2000), pp. 477-90

  • Auctoritates in the Casus decretalium of Ricardus de Mores,” Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C: Subsidia, v. 10, eds. Peter Landau and Jörg Müller (Vatican City 1997), pp. 105-116

  • “Ricardus de Mores at Common Law: The Second Career of an Anglo-Norman Canonist,” Regensburg, Bayern und Europa: Festschrift Kurt Reindel, eds. Peter Segl and Lothar Kolmer (Regensburg 1995), pp. 281-99

  • “Ricardus de Mores and his Casus decretalium: the birth of a canonistic genre,” Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C: Subsidia, v. 9, ed. Stanley Chodorow (Vatican City 1992), pp. 169-88

  • “Subdelegation by Papal Legates in Thirteenth-Century Canon Law: Powers and Limitations,” In Iure Veritas: Studies in Canon Law in Memory of Schafer Williams; eds. Steven Bowman and Blanche Cody (Cincinnati 1991), pp. 56-79

  • “Papal Reserved Powers and the Limitations on Legatine Authority,” Popes, Teachers, and Canon Law in the Middle Ages. Festschrift Brian Tierney, eds. James Ross Sweeney and Stanley Chodorow (Ithaca 1989), pp. 191-211

  • “Legatus apostolice sedis: the pope’s alter ego according to thirteenth-century canon law,” Studi Medievali third series 27:1986, pp. 527-74

  • “Decretalists, Medieval Papal Legation, and the Roman Law of Offices and Jurisdiction,” published jointly in Res Publica Litterarum 9:1986, pp. 119-35, and in Studi Umanistici Piceni 6:1986, pp. 119-35

  • “The Classification of Medieval Papal Legates in the Liber Extra,” Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 21:1983, pp. 211-28

Journal Editions:
  • The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 2007 (Columbia, SC 2007), co-editor with Stephen Lowe

  • The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 2006 (Columbia, SC 2006), co-editor with Stephen Lowe

  • The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 2005 (Columbia, SC 2005), co-editor with Stephen Lowe

  • The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 2004 (Columbia, SC 2004), co-editor with Stephen Lowe

  • The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 2002 (Columbia, SC 2002), co-editor with Stephen Lowe

Encyclopedia/Dictionary Entries:
  • “Morins, Richard de,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Brian Harrison (Oxford 2004), 39:180-82

  • “Accursius,” Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz, (New York and London 2003), 1:2-4

  • “Canon Law Collections and Ordinary Glosses,” Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Christopher Kleinhenz (New York and London 2003), 1:177-78

  • “Francesco d’Accorso,” Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz (New York and London 2003), 1:363-64

  • “Glossa Ordinaria, Roman Law”, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz (New York and London 2003), 1:437-39

  • “Frederick II (December 26, 1194-December 13, 1250),” Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia, ed. John M. Jeep (New York and London 2001), pp. 241-45


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