I'd like to ask for some assistance from John Arnold, but welcome any ideas
others may have:
Some time back there was a discussion about "heroic asceticism" and John
refered to a canon about how people who were ill should first go to a priest
before they went to a doctor, as illness could be caused by sin. Your
context was the prevalence of cathar & waldensian doctors, who obviously
were considered a threat to people's spiritual welfare.
I am interested in the different perceptions of legitimate and/or illegimate
medical/healing practitioners, and how they were defined. I would like to
know of any further reading/references to "medical doctors" amongst these
groups, and how they were perceived.
Thanking you in advance for your help,
Julie Hotchin
Monash Uni
Australia
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