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WalterUllmann(November29,1910inPulkau
January18,1983inCambridge[1])wasanAustrian
Jewishscholar,whosettledintheUnitedKingdom
afterleavingAustriainthelate1930s.Hewasa
recognisedauthorityonmedievalpoliticalthought,
andinparticularlegaltheory,anareainwhichhe
publishedprolifically.

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WalterUllmann
Born

November29,1910
Pulkau,Austria

Died

18January1983(aged72)
Cambridge

Nationality

Austria

Fields

Historian

1 Life
2 Works
3 Literature
4 References
5 Externallinks

Life
Ullmannwasthesonofadoctor.HeattendedtheclassicallanguagesschoolinHornandstudiedlawat
ViennaandInnsbruck.HavinganonAryangrandfathermadeitdangerousforhimtoremaininAustria,
soheleftforEnglandin1939andtookupapositioninaCatholicboardingschoolinLeicestershire.
In1940heenlisted,andservedintheengineeringcorpsforthreeyearsbeforewithdrawingduetoill
health.
AfterthewarhehadpositionsattheUniversityofLeeds,andthenfrom1949attheUniversityof
Cambridge,becomingaFellowofTrinityCollege,Cambridge.HebecameProfessorofMedieval
HistoryatCambridgein1972.
NotablepeoplewhostudiedunderUllmanincludeJanetNelson.
Ullmannprincipallyconcernedhimselfwiththehistoryofthoughtinthemediaevalperiodandthe
historyofthePapacyintheMiddleAges.HismostsuccessfulbookwasTheGrowthofPapal
GovernmentintheMiddleAges,whichdealswiththerelationshipbetweensecularandecclesiastical
powerinmedievaltimes.InnsbruckUniversityawardedhimanhonorarydoctorateinpoliticalscience.

Works
TheMedievalIdeaofLawasRepresentedbyLucasdePenna:AStudyinFourteenthCentury
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LegalScholarship.(1946)introductionbyHaroldDexterHazeltine
MedievalPapalism.ThePoliticalTheoriesoftheMedievalCanonists(1949)1948Maitland
Lectures
TheGrowthofPapalGovernmentintheMiddleAges:Astudyintheideologicalrelationof
clericaltolaypower(1955)
TheMedievalPapacy,StThomasandBeyond(1960)TheAquinasSocietyofLondon,Aquinas
PaperNo.35:
LiberRegieCapelle:AManuscriptintheBibliothecaPublica,Evora(1961)
AHistoryofPoliticalThought:TheMiddleAges(1965).RepublishedasMedievalPolitical
Thought(1972)
TheRelevanceofMedievalEcclesiasticalHistory:AnInauguralLecture((1966)
TheIndividualandSocietyintheMiddleAges(1966)
PrinciplesofGovernmentandPoliticsintheMiddleAges(1966).Traduccinespaola:
PrincipiosdeGobiernoyPolticaenlaEdadMedia.Madrid,RevistadeOccidente,1971.
TraduccindeGracielaSoriano.DepsitoLegal:M.5.7271971.Conclusionesfundamentalesdel
estudiodeWalterUllmann(http://enriquecastanos.com/ullmann_walter.htm)
TheCarolingianRenaissanceandtheIdeaofKingship(1969)TheBirkbeckLectures19689
AShortHistoryofthePapacyintheMiddleAges(1972)
OriginsoftheGreatSchism:AStudyinfourteenthcenturyEcclesiasticalHistory(1972)
TheFutureofMedievalHistory:AnInauguralLecture.(1973)
LawandPoliticsintheMiddleAges.AnIntroductiontotheSourcesofMedievalPoliticalIdeas
(1975)
TheChurchandtheLawintheEarlierMiddleAges:SelectedEssays(1975)
MedievalFoundationsofRenaissanceHumanism(1977)
LawandJurisdictionintheMiddleAges(1988)

Literature
RaoulC.VanCaenegem,LegalhistoriansIhaveknown:apersonalmemoir,in:
Rechtsgeschichte,ZeitschriftdesMaxPlanckInstitutsfreuropischeRechtsgeschichte,2010,
S.252299.

References
1. "WalterUllmannIsDeadat72WasScholaronMiddleAges".NewYorkTimes.19830122.

Externallinks
BritishAcademynotice(page1,PDF)(http://www.proc.britac.ac.uk/tfiles//74p483002.pdf)(dead
link)
Academicoffices
Precededby
C.R.Cheney

ProfessorofMedievalHistory,
UniversityofCambridge
19721978

Succeededby
J.C.Holt

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