Canon Episcopi
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The Canon Episcopi is an important document in the history of witchcraft.Template:Ref It is first attested in the Libri de synodalibus causis et disciplinis ecclesiasticis composed by Regino of Prüm around 906, but Regino considered it an older text; he, and later scholars following him, believed it to be from a "Council of Anquira" in 314, but no other evidence of this council exists, and scholars today consider it probably to be a ninth-century Frankish composition. It was included in Burchard of Worms' Decretum Burchardi (compiled between 1008 and 1012), an early attempt at collecting all of Canon law, and subsequently in Gratian's authoritative Corpus juris canonici of c. 1140. Because it was included in Gratian's compilation the text was treated as canon law for centuries, until Roman Catholic views on European witchcraft began to change dramatically in the late medieval period.
