Paul Pixton

Office: 2148 JFSB
Phone number: (801) 422-3335

Schooling

• BA in History, University of Utah
• MA in History, University of Utah
• PhD in History, University of Iowa
• 1970-1: Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany

Languages

• English
• German

Published Materials

• The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216–1245: Watchmen on the Tower, in the series Studies in the History of Christian Thought, ed. by Heiko A. Oberman (Leiden, The Netherlands; E.J. Brill, 1994), 543 pp.3.
• "Pope Innocent III and the German Schools: the Impact of Canon XI of the Fourth Lateranum upon Cathedral and other Schools 1261-1272," Innocenzo III Urbs et Orbis, Atti del Congresso Internazionale (Roma, 9-15 settembre 1998), ed. Andrea Sommerlechner (Roma; Società Romana di Storia Patria, and Instituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2003) 1101-1132.
• "The Tyrian and Its Mormon Passengers," Mormon Historical Studies, vol. 5 no. 1 (Spring 2004) 29–52.

Family History Courses Taught

• Hist 412 - English Sources for Family History
• Hist 485 - Junior Tutorial
• Hist 490/690 - Research Seminar (undergraduate and graduate level)

Special Projects

• Book-length study of the German cathedral schools in the 11th-13th centuries, updating the work of Anton Specht which is now over 100 years old, yet remains the only comprehensive study of this sort; builds on papers read at Toronto (1995) and Rome (1998); anticipated completion date: 2009.
• Book-length manuscript on changes in marriage practices in Germany after 1215, as a result of legislation at the Fourth Lateranum reducing the prohibited degrees of consanguinity from seven to four degrees; portions of this were presented in the BYU Virginia Cutler Lecture in November 1996; anticipated completion date: 2008.