Tag: Burchard of Worms

The Corrector, that is, the nineteenth book of Burchard of Worms’s Decretum, is widely recognized as one of the essential sources for the study of pagan survivals around the year 1000 A.D

by Medievalists.net January 4, 2015

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Medieval Black Magic

Sins of evil black magic, as listed by the medieval theologian Burchard of Worms in the 11th century.

by Sandra Alvarez February 8, 2012

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The Place of the Papacy in the Ecclesial Piety of the 11th-century Reformers

In the tenth century, it was still the Ecclesia rather than the pope which constituted the fundamental reality. The men of the Gregorian reform, in contrast, saw the Church as dependent upon the pope and derived in some way from papal power.