Thesiss

This thesis examines the relationship between Western eschatological traditions and Bishop Burchard of Worms' extended exegesis on the subject of ‘speculative theology’ within Decretum, Liber Vicesimus (c. 1012-1025). Its purpose is to explore the influence of eschatological the…

Since the discovery in 1996 of a first recension of Gratian's Decretum, there has been scholarly debate over whether the author of the first recension was the same person as the author of the second recension. The difficulties involved in the debate over the authorship of the De…