medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Shinners schrieb:
> Gratian would seem to rule out knights being ordained.
he refers only to clerics who kill. But this canon does not exclude lay
persons from being ordained if they have killed before.
Best, h.w.
> In Distinctio 50, c. 5 he says:
>
> "Clericum, qui paganum occiderit, non oportet ad maiorem gradum prouehi, qui carere debet etiam acquisito, homicida enim est. Nam cum discreti sint milites seculi a militibus ecclesiae, non conuenit militem ecclesiae militare seculo, per quod ad effusionem sanguinis necesse sit peruenire."
>
> ("It is not fitting for a cleric who has killed a pagan to advance to a higher order, which he should be deprived of even if he has achieved it, since this is homicide. For since secular soldiers/knights should be distinct from the soldiers/knights of the church, it does not suit a soldier of the church to fight for the secular world, from which the spilling of blood would result of necessity.")
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