What are the prerequisites to study Cohen-Macaulay?

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I am doing a reading in advanced algebra and I need some help in Cohen-Macaulay :

My doubts are

  1. What are the prerequisites I need to know before knowing what is Cohen-Macaulay? (I know about basic ring theory - up to UFD and Gröbner basis)

  2. Which is the best book to study it from? (given my very small background in algebra)

Also some introduction to it would be helpful.