An Annotated Bibliography of Printed and Online Primary Sources for the Middle Ages
Burchard of Worms
Bishop
lived
c.
965-1025
More than a century before the Gratian’s Decretum revolutionized the study of canon law in the Universities, Burchard of Worms wrote his Decretum. Although much smaller, Burchard’s Decretum was organized along lines similar to Gratian’s, for which it was a major source of information.
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OMSB Records by Burchard of Worms:
- Somerville, Robert, ed., trans.; Brasington, Bruce, C., ed., trans., Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity Selected Translations, 500-1245 (New Haven: Yale UP, 1998).
- Kors, Alan Charles; Peters, Edward, eds., Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (The Middle Ages Series, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).