Daniel Williman	CURRICULUM VITAE
	

	born		22 November 1940 at Summit, New Jersey, USA


	title		Professor emeritus of Latin and of History
			Binghamton University (State University of New York)

	notice		International Directory of Medievalists 

	education	Roselle, NJ and Charleston, SC; St. Bernard College, Alabama
			BA	(Latin and Philosophy) St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, 
				1958-1962.
			MA	(History) Catholic University of America, Washington, 1962-l964.
			MSL	(Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies, History Section)  Pontifical Institute 
				of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 1966-1969.
			PhD	(Medieval Studies) University of Toronto, 1969-1973

	dissertation	The Books of the Avignonese Popes and Clergy (1287-1420): A Repertory and Edition 
			of the Book-Notices in the Vatican Archives.  Notice in Dissertation Ab¬stracts 
			International A 37:10 (1977) 6667.

	fields		medieval Europe: institutional and cultural history
	of 		Latin language and medieval Latin literature
	special		history of European law
	interest	codicology and library history, diplomatics and archives, paleography and 
			diplomatics, Avignonese papacy, 1316-1420

	associations	Medieval Academy of America; 
			Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study

	books:
			Records of the Papal Right of Spoil, 1316-1412 (Paris: Institut de Recherche et 
				d'Histoire des Textes - Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, 
				1974). some reviews: by Charles Samaran, Journal des Savants (1976): 2: 
				151-152; by Michel Hayez, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 134 
				(1976): 210-211; by Jules Verger, Bulletin d'Human¬isme et Renaissance 
				38 (1976): 181-182.

			Bibliothèques ecclésiastiques au temps de la papauté d'Avignon I: I. Inventaires 
				de bibliothèques et mentions de livres dans les Archives du Vatican 
				(1287-1420) -Répertoire; II. Inventaires de prélats et de clercs non 
				français -Edition (Paris: Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des 
				Textes - Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, 1980).  some 
				reviews: by Walter Ullmann, Nottingham Medieval Studies 25 (1981): 
				84-88; by Gero Dolezalek, Zeit¬schrift der Savigny-Stiftung für 
				Rechtsges¬chichte 98 (l981): 410-411; by Bernard Guenée, Annales: 
				Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations 37 (1982): 516-519.

			(editor) The Black Death: The Impact of the Fourteenth-Century Plague (Papers of 
				the 11th Annual Conference of CEMERS) (Binghamton, NY, 1982). some 
				reviews: by Heinrich Schipperges, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 
				100 (1984) 582; by Christian Dury, Moyen Age 95 (1989) 367-8; by Guenter 
				B. Risse, History of Philosophy of the Life Sciences 9 (1987) 352-3.

			Legal Terminology: An Historical Guide to the Technical Language of Law 
				(Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1986).

			The Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon 1316-1415. Transactions of the 
				American Philosophical Society, Vol. 78, Pt. 6 (Philadel-phia: 1988).  
				some reviews: by Jacques Paul, Revue d'histoire de l'Eglise de France 
				78 (1992) 178-9; by John E. Weakland, Catholic Historical Review 76 
				(1990) 355-6; by M. Maillard-Luypaert, Revue d'histoire écclésiastique 
				(1991) 514-6.

			Calendar of the Letters of Arnaud Aubert, Camerarius Apostolicus (1361-1371) 
				(Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1992). some reviews: 
				by Joseph Kicklighter, Speculum 69 (1994) 583-5; by Arnold Esch, Quellen 
				und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 73 (1993) 
				773-4; by Edouard Bouyé, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 152 (1994) 
				546-8.

			Early Provenances of Latin Manuscripts of the Vatican Library: Vaticani Latini 
				and Borghesiani (with Karen Corsano). Studi e testi 405 (Biblioteca 
				Apostolica Vaticana, 2002).

			Letters of Pierre de Cros, Chamberlain to Pope Gregory XI (1371 - 1378).  
				Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 356 (Tempe, Arizona, 2009).


	articles	

			"Memoranda and Sermons of Etienne Aubert (Innocent VI) as Bishop (1338-1341)," 
				Mediaeval Studies 37 (1975): 7-41.

			"A Liber Sextus from the Bonifacian Library: Vatican Borghese 7," Bulletin of 
				Medieval Canon Law 7 (1977): 103-108.

			"Letters of Etienne Cambarou, Camerarius Apostolicus (1347¬¬-1361)," Archivum 
				Historiae Pontificiae 15 (1977): 195-215.

			"Dictio probatoria as Fingerprint: Computer Discovery of Manuscript Provenances," 
				with programmer Marguerita Dziedzic, Computers and the Humanities 12 
				(1978): 89-92.

			"The Camerary and the Schism," Genèse et débuts du Grand Schisme d'Occident 
				(Avignon, 25-28 septembre 1978) (Colloques internationaux du CNRS, no. 
				586, 1980), 65-71.

			"Archives" and "Schools, Grammar" in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Joseph 
				R. Strayer (12 vols.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982-    ): 1 
				(1982) 445-449 and 11 (1988) 63-64.

			"Translating Medieval Latin," Translation Perspectives:  Selected Papers, 1982-83, 
				ed. Marilyn Gaddis Rose (Binghamton, NY, 1984), 57-62.

			"Summary Justice in the Avignonese Camera," Proceedings of the Sixth International 
				Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Berkeley, California, July 1980), ed. 
				Stephan Kuttner; Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C: Subsidia, vol. 7 
				(1985): 437 449.

			"An Index of dictiones probatoriae," Scriptorium 39 (1985): 158 159.

			"The Library of S. Victor de Marseille, 1374," in A Distinct Voice: Medieval 
				Studies in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle, O. P., ed. Jaqueline Brown and 
				William P. Stoneman (Notre Dame, Indiana, 1997), pp. 231-249.

			"A Sad Moment for Official Rhetoric," General Linguistics 35 (1995): A Special 
				Volume dedicated to Saul Levin, pp. 177-180.


			"Tracing Provenances by dictio probatoria" (with Karen Corsano), Scriptorium 
				53 (1999) 124-145.

			"Some Additional Provenances of Cambridge Latin Manuscripts," Transactions of 
				the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 11 (1999) 427-448.
	
			“Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Scotland: Some Provenances” (with Karen Corsano), 
				Transactions of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 6,5 (2002) 178-190.

			“Les Statutes de la Cour Temporelle d’Avignon en 1375” (with Karen Corsano and 
				Anne-Marie Hayez), Mémoires de l’Académie de Vaucluse 8. série, 8 (1999) 
				9-27.

			“The Interdict of Florence (31 March 1376): New Documents" (with Karen Corsano), 
				Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia 56 (2002) 427-481.

			“Guglielmites” and “Periculoso” in Women in the Middle Ages, eds. Katharina M. 
				Wilson and Nadia Margolis (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004) 
				1, 383-384 and 2, 749-750.

			“Schism within the Curia: The Twin Papal Elections of 1378,” Journal of 
				Ecclesiastical History 59 (2008) 29 47.

			Fifty articles in Robert C. Bjork, ed., The Oxford History of the Middle Ages 
				(Oxford UP, 2010).

	current:
			Rose-Marie Ormond (d. 1918); a pirate cruise and papal policy (1355-57); 
				Provenances of Latin Manuscripts by Probatoria; The Chronicle of 
				Guillaume de Nangis in the British Library.


	reviews:
			some 75 book reviews in: American Historical Review, American Journal of Legal 
			History, Books in Canada, Canadian Notes & Queries, Catholic Historical Review, 
			Choice, International Journal for the Classical Tradition, The Jurist, Kingston 
			(Ontario) Whig-Standard, Left History, The Medieval Review (TMR-L); Speculum, 
			Toronto Star; contributor to Books for College Libraries (Chicago: American 
			Library Association, 1988)


	referee  		
			NEH Research Tools and Fellowships Programs; Catholic University Press; American 
			Philosophical Society; Broadview Press (Peterborough, Ontario); American Historical 
			Review; International Journal for the Classical Tradition; Speculum; Medieval and 
			Renaissance Texts and Studies; Mediaeval Studies (Toronto); editorial consultant, 
			Vatican	Archives, ed. Fran Blouin et al. (Oxford University Press, 1998); NEH 
			Humanities Selection Panel, 2004.

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