CURRICULUM VITAE
Nelson Hubert Minnich
Born: 15 January 1942, Cincinnati, Ohio
Addresses: 5713 37th Avenue Program in Church History
Hyattsville, Maryland 20782 Catholic University of America
Tel. (301) 277-5891 Washington, D.C. 20064
Tel. (202) 319-5702 (office) or 5079 (CHR)
Education:
1959-63 Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) -- part time (Humanities)
1963-65 Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) -- AB (Philosophy)
1965-66 Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) -- MA (History)
1968-70 Gregorian University (Roma, Italia) -- STB (Theology)
1970-77 Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- PhD (History)
Dissertation: "Episcopal Reform at the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)" directed by Myron P. Gilmore
Post-Graduate Distinctions:
Foundation for Reformation Research: Junior Fellow (1971) for paleographical studies
Institute of International Education: Fulbright Grant for Research in Italy (1972-73) full award for dissertation research -- resigned due to impending death in family
Harvard University: Tuition plus stipend (1971-72), Staff Tuition Scholarship (1972-73, 1974-76), Emerton Fellowship (1972-73), Harvard Traveling Fellowship (1973-74) for dissertation research
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference: Carl Meyer Prize (1977)
National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Stipend (1978) to work on the "Protestatio" of Alberto Pio
Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies: Fellowship for the summer (1979) to study Leo X's concern for doctrine prior to Luther
American Academy in Rome: Post-Classical Humanistic Studies Fellowship (1979-80) Room and board plus stipend to study Leo X's concern for doctrine prior to Luther
American Council of Learned Societies: Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the PhD (1979-80) to study Leo X's concern for doctrine prior to Luther
Richard Krautheimer Scholarship: Research Grant (1980) to study Leo X's concern for doctrine prior to Luther
Societas Internationalis Historiae Conciliorum Investigandae: Travel grants to conferences in Toledo (1982), Ottobeuren (1984), Jerusalem (1986), Istanbul (1987), Ferrara-Florence (1990), Dubrovnik (1997), Trogir (2008), Esztergom (2010)
American Philosophical Society: Research Grant (1984) to study Antonio Agli's autobiography
National Endowment for the Humanities: Grant for Translation (with Daniel J. Sheerin) (1986) grant to study Erasmus' debate with Alberto Pio
American Council of Learned Societies: Travel to Conferences Grant (1986) to give papers in Amsterdam and Ingolstadt
American Council of Learned Societies: Research Fellowship (1990) to study the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)
Catholic University of America: Faculty Research Grant-In-Aid (1990) to study the Fifth Lateran Council; (1993), (1994), (1995), (1997) to prepare Erasmus-Pio debate manuscript for publication, and (2001) to work on the Renaissance Church's attitudes toward Blacks in Italy; (2003) to pay for illustrations for article on Raphael’s Leo X; (2009) to work on a critical edition of the decrees of Lateran V; (2011) to work on Renaissance Papacy book.
Renaissance Society of America: Senior Fellow Research Grant (2001) to work on Renaissance Church's attitudes toward Blacks in Italy.
National Humanities Center: Senior Fellowship from the Lilly Endowment (2004-05)
Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche: appointed to membership by Benedict XVI on 5 February 2007, renewed on 17 April 1512 for another five years
Graduate Students Association, The Catholic University of America: The Bruno Damiani Graduate Teacher of the Year Award 2010
Istituto per le scienze religiose: senior visiting fellow, May-June 2012
Academic Positions:
1966-68 Loyola Academy (Wilmette, Illinois) -- Instructor in World and American History and in Civics
1972-73 Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- Teaching Fellow and Assistant (1974-77)
1977- The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.) -- Assistant (1977-83), Associate (1983-93), Full (1993- ) Professor in the Departments of History and Church History; acting chairman (Spring 1978 and Fall 1985), chairman (Spring 1979, Spring 1987 to Summer 1989, and Fall 1998 to Summer 2002) of the Department of Church History
1977- The Catholic Historical Review (Washington, D.C.) – Associate Editor (1977-90, 2003-05), Advisory Editor (1991-2003), Editor (2005- )
1988-2002 Melville Studies in Church History (Washington, D.C.) -- Editor
Publications:
Books:
Studies in Catholic History in Honor of John Tracy Ellis, ed. Nelson H. Minnich, Robert B. Eno, S.S., and Robert Trisco (Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1985), Pp. xxi, 765.
The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17): Studies on Its Membership, Diplomacy, and Proposals for Reform [Collected Studies Series CS 392] (London: Variorum, 1993), Pp. viii, 342.
The Catholic Reformation: Council, Churchmen, and Controversies [Collected Studies Series CS 403] (London: Variorum, 1993), Pp. x, 313.
Encyclopedia of the Renaisssance, general editor Paul F. Grendler, associate editor for church history materials Nelson H. Minnich, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999) -- I edited over 80 articles.
Controversies: Responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam Alberti Pii, Apologia adversus rhapsodias Alberti Pii, Brevissima scholia. Edited by Nelson H. Minnich, translated by Daniel Sheerin, annotated by Nelson H. Minnich and Daniel Sheerin, [The Collected Works of Erasmus, volume 84]. (Toronto/ Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press, 2005), Pp. cxlviii, 483.
Councils of the Catholic Reformation: Pisa I (1409) to Trent (1545-63) [Collected Studies Series CS890] (Aldershot,UK: Ashgate/Variorum, 2008), Pp. xii, 348.
Chapters in Books:
"`Incipiat Iudicium a Domo Domini': The Fifth Lateran Council and the Reform of Rome," Reform and Authority in the Medieval and Reformation Church, ed. Guy F. Lytle (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1981) 127-142. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"Girolamo Massaino: Another Conciliarist at the Papal Court, Julius II to Adrian VI," Studies in Catholic History in Honor of John Tracy Ellis, ed. Nelson H. Minnich, Robert B. Eno, and Robert Trisco (Wilmington, Del.: Michael Glazier,Inc., 1985) 520-565.
"The Autobiography of Antonio degli Agli (ca. 1400-77), Humanist and Prelate," Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, 2 vols, ed. Andrew Morrogh et al. (= Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 7) (Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1985), I, 177-191. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"Erasmus and the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)," Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Man and the Scholar: Proceedings of the Symposium Held at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 9-11, November 1986, ed. Jan Sperna Weiland and WillemTh.M. Frijhoff (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988) 46-60. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"On the Origins of Eck's `Enchiridion'," Johannes Eck (1486-1543) im Streit der Jahrhunderte: Internationales Symposium der Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum aus Anlass des 500. Geburtstages des
Johannes Eck vom 13. bis 16. November 1986 in Ingolstadt und Eichstätt, ed. Erwin Iserloh (=Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, Band 127) (Münster: Verlag Aschendorff, 1988) 37-73. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"The Proposals for an Episcopal College at Lateran V," Ecclesia Militans:
Studien zur Konzilien und Reformationsgeschichte. Remigius Bäumer zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet, ed. Walter Brandmüller, Herbert Immenkötter, and Erwin Iserloh, 2 vols. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1988), Band I: Zur Konziliengeschichte, 213-232. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council.
"Prophecy and the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)," Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance Period, ed. Marjorie E. Reeves [= Oxford-Warburg Studies] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 63-87.
"The Role of Prophecy in the Career of the Enigmatic Bernardino López de Carvajal," Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance Period, ed. Marjorie E. Reeves [= Oxford-Warburg Studies] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 111-120.
"`Wie in dem Basilischen concilio den Bohemen gescheen'? The Status of Protestants at the Council of Trent," The Contentious Triangle: Church, State, and University. A Festschrift in Honor of Professor George Huntston Williams, eds. Rodney L. Petersen and Calvin Augustine Pater [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 51] (Kirkville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999), 201-219.
"The Last Two Councils of the Catholic Reformation: The Influence of Lateran V on Trent," Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J., eds. Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), 3-25.
"The Catholic Church and the Pastoral Care of Black Africans in Renaissance Italy," Blacks Africans in Renaissance Europe, eds. Thomas Earle and Kate J. Lowe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 280-300.
“The Images of Julius II in the Acta of the Councils of Pisa-Milan-Asti-Lyons (1511-12) and Lateran V (1512-17),” in: Giulio II: papa, politico, mecenate: Savona, Fortezza del Priamar, Sala della Sibilla, 25-26-27 marzo 2004. Atti del Convegno, eds. Giovanna Rotondi Terminiello and Giulio Nepi (Genova: De Ferrari & Devega S.r.l. Editoria, 2005), 79-90.
“The Role of the Schools of Theology in the Councils of the Late Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Konstanz to Lateran V,” in I Padri e le scuole teologiche nei concili, eds, Johannes Grohe, Jerónimo Leal,and Vito Reale (Città del Vaticano: Libreria editrice Vaticana, 2006), 59-95.
“Julius II and Leo X as Presidents of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517),” in La Papauté à la Renaissance, eds. Florence Alazard and Frank La Branca [Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance: Le savoir de Mantice] (Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2007), 153-166.
“Alberto Pio’s Defense of Scholastic Theology,” in Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus, edited by Erika Rummel (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008), 277-295.
“Councils of the Catholic Reformation: A Historical Survey,” in The Church, the Councils, and Reform: The Legacy of the Fifteenth Century, eds. Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Christopher M. Bellitto (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008), 27-59.
“The Official Edition of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17),” in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Washington, D.C., 1-7 August 2004, eds. Uta Renate Blumenthal, Kenneth Pennington, and Atria A. Larson (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008), 965-978.
“Rite Convocare ac Congregare Procedereque: The Struggle Between the Councils of Pisa-Milan-Asti-Lyon and Lateran V,” in Liturgie und Zeremoniell am Papsthof der Renaissance, eds. Jörg Bölling and Nikolaus Staubach [Tradition – Reform- Innovation] (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, forthcoming); printed in his Councils of the Catholic Reformation: Pisa I (1409) to Trent (1546-63), entry IX, pp. 1-54..
“The Fifth Lateran Council as a Theatre for Demonstrating Papal Power,” translated by Eric C. Erbacher as “Das Fünfte Laterankonzil als geistliches Spiel zur Demonstration päpstlicher Macht”, in: Ekklesiologische Alternativen? Monarchischer Papat und Formen kollegialer Kirchenleitung (15. – 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Bernward Schmidt and Hubert Wolf [Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme, Schriftreihe des Sonderforschungsberichs 496, Band 42] (Münster: Rhema, 2013), 101-120.
“Lateranense V,” in Conciliorum oecumenicorum generaliumque decreta, eds. Giuseppe Alberigo and Alberto Melloni, 3 vols., (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming) – a critical edition with introduction of twenty-two decrees (including the Concordat of Bologna) based on surviving bulls, copies of bulls recorded in the Vatican registers, early pamphlet printed editions of the bulls, the bulls as they appeared in the official acta of the Council edited by Antonio del Monte, and the version found in the re-edited Mansi edition), 202 pages in manuscript, awaiting publication
“What is an Ecumenical Council? The Sixteenth-Century Teachings of the Theologian Roberto Bellarmino and the Canonist Domenico Giacobazzi,” translated as “Cos’è un Concilio Ecumenico? Il dibattito storiografico contemporaneo sulla ratio universalitatis dei Concili alla luce delle riflessione cinquecentesca del teologo Roberto Bellarmino e del canonista Domenico Giacobazzi “ for book in Italian on Ecumenical Councils edited by Pierantonio Piatti to be published by Città Nuova Editrice in Rome in 2012. (forthcoming)
“Luther, Cajetan, and Pastor Aeternus (1516) of Lateran V on Conciliar Authority,” to be published in a bi-lingual German/Italian versions in the proceedings of the international conference “Martin Luther in Rom: Kosmopolitisches Zentrum und seine Wahrnehmung / Martino Lutero a Roma: La città cosmopolita e la sua percezione” held at the German Historical Institute in Rome, 16-19 February 2011. (forthcoming)
“Leo X’s Response to the ‘Report on the Errors of the Ruthenians’,” in: Fiat voluntas tua. Beiträge zur Theologie-, Kirchen- und Landesgeschichte: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Harm Klueting, ed. Reimund Haas et alii (Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2014) (forthcoming)
“Egidio Antonino and the Reform of Religious Orders at the Fifth Lateran Council” to be published in the proceedings of the “Convegno Internazionale : Egidio da Viterbo, cardinale agostiniano, tra Romae l’Europa del Rinascimento” held in Rome September 2012
“The Resolution of Gallican-Papal Conflicts at Lateran V (1512-17),” to be published in the proceedings of the international congress held at Lille, France Many 2013
Journal Articles:
"Concepts of Reform Proposed at the Fifth Lateran Council," Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 7 (1969) 163-251. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council with new appendices added.
"Two Woodcuts of Lateran V," (co-authored with Heinrich W. Pfeiffer) Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 8 (1970) 179-214.
"The Participants at the Fifth Lateran Council," Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 12 (1974) 157-206. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council.
"The Orator of Jerusalem at Lateran V," Orientalia Christiana Periodica 40 (1974) 364-376. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"The `Protestatio' of Alberto Pio (1513)," Società, politica e cultura a Carpi ai tempi di Alberto III Pio: Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Carpi, 19-21 Maggio 1978), 2 vols., ed. Rino Avesani et al., Medioevo e Umanesimo 46 (Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1981), I, 261-289. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council.
"The Character of Erasmus," (co-authored with William W. Meissner, M.D.), American Historical Review 83 (1978) 598-624; 84 (1979) 907-909. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"De Grassi's `Conciliabulum' at Lateran V: The De Gargiis Woodcut of Lateran V Re-Examined," (co-authored with Heinrich W. Pfeiffer), Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 19 (1981) 147-172.
"Paride de Grassi's Diary of the Fifth Lateran Council," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 14 (1982) 370-460. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"The Healing of the Pisan Schism (1511-13)," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 16 (1984) 59-192. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council with new appendices added.
"The Function of Sacred Scripture in the Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 18 (1986) 319-329. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council.
"Alexios Celadenus: A Disciple of Bessarion in Renaissance Italy," Culture, Society and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Essays by the Students and Colleagues of William J. Bouwsma, ed. Ellery Schalk, Historical Reflections 15 (1988) 47-64. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"Vocational Choices: An Unknown Letter of Pietro Querini to Gasparo Contarini and Niccolò Tiepolo (April, 1512)," (co-authored with Elisabeth G. Gleason) Catholic Historical Review 75 (1989) 1-20. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.