All Papal Bulls (Religious Legal Instruments)

Formal letters of the pope sealed with a lead seal, such as Unam Sanctam, Exsurge Domine, Sublimis Deus, Dum Diversas and Inter Caetera. An entry belongs here when its article presents a papal bull. The group page lists texts of the same legal kind together so that a reader can compare how religious authority and state power are put into writing. Entries are placed by what their own article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group that its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.