Judging from the date alone I would hazzard a guess that this injunction
came from the 4th Lateran Council... I remember that the University of
Paris also had injunctions against teaching surgery, presumably after
1215. I *suspect* that the injunction was against *clerics* not just
priests, but now we are entering the realm of hazy recollection :) I know
that the various edicts of Lat. IV are in Mansi. There ought to be a more
recent edition, perhaps even one in translation (?), but offhand I don't
know of it. Does anyone else on the list?
Cheers,
Nicole
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Melissa Raine wrote:
> I have read that from 1215, priests were not allowed to perform surgery
> (inclusing phlebotomy), but I am not sure where I would go to find the
> injunction itself. But even more difficult, I suspect, is to find out
> how long this rule stayed in place; was it ever repealed? Was it
> eventually ignored? Is it still the rule? Does anybody have any
> answers?
>
> Thanks, Melissa
>
>
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Research Associate, Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies
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