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James Muldoon
Dr. Muldoon has been publishing on scholarly topics since the 1960s and shows no signs of slowing down. To date he has published no less than eight books, seventeen articles, seventeen chapters in books, and dozens of other writings including book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and newspaper articles.The academic organizations he has published with include the University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Florida Press, Ashgate/Variorum, Traditio and Speculum. His most recent publication on the crusades is “Crusading and Canon Law,” Palgrave Advances in the Crusades, ed. Helen J. Nicholson. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005:37-57. He is currently co-author with Andrew Holt of what will be his ninth book, the forthcoming Fighting Words: Competing Voices from the Crusades (Greenwood, 2007).
Dr. Muldoon is a former enlisted man in the U.S. Army who later received his B.A.degree from Iona College in 1957 and a M.A. degree from Boston College in 1959 . From there he went on to study for his Ph.D. at Cornell University, which he earned in 1965. While at Cornell he studied with his friend Alfred Andrea, a former enlisted Marine, who also went on to become a highly respected medieval historian. Both Dr. Muldoon and Dr. Andrea are unique among historians in the sense that very few younger scholars have served in the military.
After receiving his PhD in 1965, he took a teaching position as an Assistant Professor of History at St. Michael's College in Vermont until 1970 before moving on to his post at the University of Rutger-Camden where he became Professor Emeritus in 1998. Since then, Dr. Muldoon has served as an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Select List of Publications
Books
The Expansion of Europe: The First Phase, editor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,1977)
Popes, Lawyers, and Infidels: The Church and the Non- Christian World 1250-1550 (Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, l979)
The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994).
Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages, editor (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997).
Canon Law, the Expansion of Europe, and World Order (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate/Variorum, 1998)
Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800-1800 (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999).
Identity on the Medieval Irish Frontier: Degenerate Englishmen, Wild Irishmen, Middle Nations: (Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2003).
The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas: (Gainesville:University Press of Florida, 2004).
Articles
"Extra ecclesiam non est imperium: The Canonists and the Legitimacy of Secular Power," Studia Gratiana 9
(1966), pp.553-580.
"A Canonistic Contribution to the Formation of Inter- national Law," The Jurist 28(1968), pp.265-279.
"Boniface VIII's Forty Years of Experience in the Law," The Jurist, 31(1971), pp.449-477.
"The Contribution of the Medieval Canon Lawyers to the Formation of International Law," Traditio 28 (1972),
pp. 483-497.
"Missionaries and the Marriages of Infidels:The Case of the Mongol Mission," The Jurist 35 (1975), pp.125- 141
"The Indian as Irishman," Essex Institute Historical Collections, 111 (1975), pp.267-289.
"Papal Responsibility for the Infidel: Another Look at Alexander VI's Inter cetera," The Catholic Historical Review, 64 (1978), pp. 168-184.
"The Remonstrance of the Irish Princes and the Canon Law Tradition of the Just War," American Journal of
Legal History, 22(1978), pp.309-325.
"The Avignon Papacy and the Frontiers of Christendom: The Evidence of Vatican Register 62," Archivium
Historiae Pontificiae, 17(1979), pp.125-195.
"John Wyclif and the Rights of the Infidels: The Requerimiento Re-examined," The Americas, 36 (1980), 301-316.
-- and Drew Humphries, "Legal History in the Core Curriculum, The History Teacher, Nov., 1988, pp. 11-14.
"Solorzano's De Indiarum Jure: Applying a Medieval Theory of World Order in the Seventeenth Century,"
Journal of World History 2(1991), pp. 29 - 45.
"Columbus's First Voyage and the Medieval Legal Tradition," Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series, 19 (1992),
pp. 11 - 26.
"The Rights of Native Peoples: A Positive Contribution to the Columbian Encounter," Columbus: Meeting of
Cultures, Forum Italicum, Columbus Supplement ed. Mario B. Mignone (Stony Brook October, NY: Forum
Italicum, 1992), pp.29 - 37.
"Medieval Canon Law and the Formation of International Law," Savigny-Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte:
Kanonistische Abteilung 81(1995), pp.64-82.
“Medieval Canon Law and the Conquest of the Americas,” Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 37 (2000), 9- 22.
“Spiritual Freedom-Physical Slavery: The Medieval Church and Slavery,” Ave Maria Law Review 3 (2005): 69-93.
Chapters in Books
"A Fifteenth-Century Application of the Canonistic Theory of the Just War," Proceedings of the Fourth
International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Vatican City, 1976), pp.467-480.
"The Development of Group Rights, in Jay A. Sigler, Minority Rights: A Comparative Analysis (Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983), pp.31-66.
"Boniface VIII as Defender of Royal Power: Unam sanctam as a Basis of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas,"
in Popes, Teachers, and Canon Law in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Brian Tierney, ed. James
Ross Sweeney and Stanley Chodorow (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp.62-73.
"The Bishops' Pastoral on Peace: The Medieval Just War in the Modern World," in Church Polity and American
Politics: Issues in Contemporary American Catholicism, ed. Mary C. Segers (New York: Garland
Publishers, 1989), pp. 67-79.
"The Conquest of the Americas: The Spanish Search for Global Order," in Religion and Global Order, eds.
William R. Garrett and Roland Robertson (New York: Paragon House, 1991), pp. 65-85.
"The Nature of the Infidel: The Anthropology of the Canon Lawyers," Imagining New Worlds: Essays on
Factual and Figural Discovery During the Middle Ages, ed. Scott D. Westrem, (New York: Garland.
1991, pp. 115-124.
"Spiritual Conquests Compared: Laudabiliter and the Conquest of the Americas," In Iure Veritas: Studies in Canon
Law in Memory of Schafer Williams, ed.Steven B. Bowman and Blanche E. Cody (Cincinnati: University of
Cincinnati College of Law, 1991), pp. 174 - 186.
"The Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of the New World," Proceedings of the Eighth International
Congress of Medieval Canon Law, University of California, San Diego, August 21-27, 1988 (Vatican
City, 1992), pp. 707 - 720.
"John Adams, Canon Law, and the Ghost of Thomas Becket, Empire and Revolutions, The Folger Institute
Center for the History of British Political Thought, Proceedings, vol. 6, ed. Gordon Schochet (Washington,
D. C.: The Folger Institute, 1993), pp. 235-259.
“Hugo Grotius Medieval Canon Law and the Creation of Modern International Law," Proceedings of the Ninth
Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Munich, July, 1992 (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1997),
pp. 1155-1166.
"The Medieval Church-State Conflict in the New World," Columbus and the New World,eds. Joseph C.
Schnaubelt, O.S.A. and Frederick Van Fleteren (New York: Peter Lang, 1998,), pp.167-184.
“The Great Commission and the Canon Law: The Catholic Law of Mission”,Sharing the Book: Religious
Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism, eds. John Witte Jr. and Richard C. Martin
(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999), 174-200.
“Race or Culture: Medieval Notions of Difference,” Race & Racism in Theory & Practice, ed. Berel Lang
(Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) 79-97.
“Discovery, Grant, Charter, Conquest, or Purchase: John Adams on the Legal Basis for English Possession of
North America,” The Many Legalities of Early America, Ed. Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann
(Chapel Hill” University of North Carolina Press, 2001)25-46.
“Who Owns the Sea,” Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2002),13-27.
"Christendom, The Americas, and World Order”, Proceedings of the History of the Atlantic System Conference
1580- 1830 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002):65-82.
“Crusading and Canon Law,” Palgrave Advances in the Crusades,ed. Helen J. Nicholson (Houndsmills:Palgrave
Macmillan,2005:37-57.
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