Lawrence Jannuzzi
Lecturer
Biography
Dr. Lawrence Jannuzzi is a scholar of history whose primary research areas include medieval theology, ecclesiology, and political theory; English and Italian church; and intellectual history. His secondary research areas are comparative church history and the Reformation in late medieval Europe, Tudor/Stuart England, and Colonial America. At Zaytuna College, he has taught Constitutional Law.
Dr. Jannuzzi received his Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. He also earned a Juris Doctor degree from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), practicing as an attorney in San Francisco for thirty-five years with emphasis on representation of churches and religious organizations, culminating in service as General Counsel for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Dr. Jannuzzi’s PhD thesis, titled “Adam Easton’s Humanistic Hierarchy: A Study in 14th Century Political Theology,” examines the life and writings of a fourteenth-century English theologian, monk, and cardinal whose political and theological work presents a unique integration of pseudo-Dionysian hierarchical thought with neo-Augustinian individualism, late-scholastic philosophy, and humanistic influences.
Dr. Jannuzzi has a reading knowledge of German, French, Italian, and Latin.
Dr. Jannuzzi joined the faculty of Zaytuna College in 2016.
Attorney at Law, Tobin and Tobin, San Francisco, 1987–2001
Email: ljannuzzi@zaytuna.edu
Office hours: By appointment
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, PhD, History, 2004
- University of California, Berkeley, MA, History, 1997
- University of California, Berkeley, Juris Doctor, Law, 1987
- Arizona State University, Certificate in Scholarly Publishing, 1981
- Arizona State University, BA, Education, 1978
Journal Articles
- “William Lloyd Garrison and the Crisis of Nonresistance.” Journal of Massachusetts History 23 (1995): 21–43.
- “And Let All the People Say ‘Amen’: Priests, Presbyters and the Arminian Uprising in Massachusetts, 1717–1724.” Journal of Massachusetts History 27 (1999): 1–27.
Books
“Galbert of Bruges: The Notary as Poet.” In The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources, edited by Jason Glenn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011
Lectures
“Canon and Canonization: Direct Revelation and Adam Easton’s Defense of St. Birgitta.” Medieval Association of the Pacific, Spring 2005.