Binsfeld napsal vlivné pojednání De confessionibus maleficorum et sagarum („O doznání černokněžníků a čarodějnic“), [1 ] které bylo přeloženo do několika jazyků (Trevír, 1589).
Peter, a son of a farmer and craftsman, was born in the village of Binsfeld in the rural Eifel region, located in the modern state of Rhineland-Palatinate; he died in Trier as a victim of the bubonic plague.