History Faculty
Dr. Timothy G. Sistrunk
Medieval Europe and European Legal
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1995
Lecturer
Office Phone: 530-898-4202
e-mail: tsistrunk@csuchico.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Sistrunk's current research focuses on the connections between scientific and technological change, the environment and law from the 12th through the 14th centuries in Western Europe.
Publications
Professor Sistrunk is the author of Law, Custom and Language: Ideas in Practice in the Legal Writings of Cino da Pistoia (Catholic University Press, forthcoming). He also has published several articles including "The Right to the Wind in the Middle Ages" in Wind and Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance, ed. Steven A. Walton (Tempe AZ: ACMRS, 2006), 153-167; "Rector civitatis and the Ius Commune" in Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, August 1996, eds. Kenneth Pennington, Stanly Chodorow, and Keith Kendall (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2001), 575-589; "The Function of Praise In the Contract of a Medieval Public Physician," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 48 (1993): 320-334; "The Emperor is Married to the Res Publica," Journal of Medieval History 17 (1991): 115-121 and "Obligations of the First-born Son In Dante's Monarchia," Dante Studies 105 (1987): 95-112.
Courses Taught
HIST 101: Ancient Civilizations
HIST 102: Medieval and Early Modern Civilizations
HIST 105: Global Environmental History to Columbus
HIST 305: Catastrophes and Human History
HIST 315: Myth & History in European Cinema
HIST 341: The American Environment
HIST 389: History Internship
HIST 398: Special Topics
HIST 410: Medieval History
HIST 697: Independent Study
If you have any questions about the Department of History and its academic programs, please do not hesitate to call at (530) 898-5366.