Treatise

Trea"tise

• A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer.
  

  He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity.

  ☞ A treatise implies more form and method than an essay, but may fall short of the fullness and completeness of a systematic exposition.
• [Rare] Story; discourse. Shakespeare