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Burchard of Worms



Biography



  • Born 965 into hessian nobility.
  • Educated at places like Koblenz.
  • 996: Provost of St. Victor (Mainz) and Royal Chaplain.
  • 997: Priestly ordination.
  • 1000: Episcopal ordination .
  • Death 28.08.1025


Activities as canonist



  • 1008-1023: Decretorum libri XX., better known as Decretum Burchardi.
  • 1023-1025: Lex familiae Wormatiensis Ecclesiae: Regulation of manorial system.



Editions and Sources



  • Opera omnia: MIGNE, J.P. (ed.): Burchardi Vomatiensis Episcopi Opera Omnia. Juxta Editionem Parisiensem Anni 1549 ad Prelum Revocata et Cura qua par erat Mendata, Praecedunt Sancti Henrici Imperatoris Augusti Constitutions et Diplomata Ecclesiastica, Tomus Unicus, Parisiorum, Lutetiae, 1853, Reprint by Brepols, Turnholt 1970.
  • Decretum Burchardi in translation:
  • Latin: MIGNE, J.P. (ed.): Burchardi episcopi Wormatiensis Decretorum Libri Viginti, in: Ibid. (ed.): Burchardi Vomatiensis Episcopi Opera Omnia. Juxta Editionem Parisiensem Anni 1549 ad Prelum Revocata et Cura qua par erat Mendata, Praecedunt Sancti Henrici Imperatoris Augusti Constitutions et Diplomata Ecclesiastica, Tomus Unicus Parisiorum Lutetiae, 1853, 57-1066.
  • Portugese: BRAGAN, Júnior et.al. (eds.): O Corrector sive Medicus (ou Corrector Burchardi, ou Da poenitentia, c.1000-1025) por Burcardo de Worms (c.965-1025), Revista Signum 17 (1), pp.266-309.
  • French: GAGNON, François: Le Corrector sive Medicus de Burchard de Worms (1000-1015): presentation, traduction et commentaire ethno-historique, University of Montréal (Diss.), Montréal 2010.
  • English: SHINERS, John (ed.): Burchard of Worm’s Corrector and Doctor (c.1008-12), in: SHINERS, John (ed.): Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500: A reader, 2. ed., University of Toronto Press, Toronto, pp.459-470.
  • MCNEIL, John/ GARNER, Helena: Medieval Handbooks of Penance, Octagon Books, New York, pp.321-345.
  • Italian: PICASSO, Giorgio et. al (eds.): A pane e acqua: peccati e penitenze nel Medioevo -Il «Penitenziale» di Bucardo di Worms, Europia, Novara 1998.
  • WEILAND, Ludwig (ed.): Lex familiae Wormatiensi ecclesiae, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Vol.438, pp.639-644. See also: WEINRICH, Lorenz (ed.): Quellen zur Verfassungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Freiherr-von-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe 32,1977) p.88-105.



Introductory Secondary Literature


 

  • AUSTIN, G.: Shaping Church Law around the Year 1000: The Decretum of Burchard of Worms, Ashgate, Aldershot 2009.
  • Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm: Burchard, Bischof von Worms, in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Vol. 1, Bautz, Hamm 19902, col.815-816.
  • ·Detailed introduction with further literature at geschichtsquellen.de.
  • For further information see: Burchard, von Worms, Index entry in: Deutsche Biographie.
  • LAUDAGE Johannes: Burchard I., in: KASPER, Walter (ed.): Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, Vol.2, Barclay-Damodos, Herder 2009, p.799.
  • PERTY, Georg Heinrich et.al. (eds.): Vita Burchardi episcopi Wormatiensis, in: Scriptores (in Folio) 4: Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Carolini et Saxonici, Hannover 1841, p.829-846, Momumenta Germaniae Historica; see also: BOOS, Heinrich (ed.): Vita Burchardi, in: Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Worms, Vol. 3, Berlin 1893, pp.99-126.

 



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