Los municipios contra el centralismo monárquico. La oposición concejil a los alcaldes mayores de las profesiones sanitarias en la Castilla del siglo XV

Abstract

During the fifteenth Century Castilian, the monarchs tried to bring under its control to the health professions, through the appointment of judges over physicians, surgeons, tooth-puller, veterinarians and others. The role of these royal officials was to examine, and sometimes judge, the work of these professionals and grant licenses to those who qualified. It also provides a listing of those officials and their activities. To serve as judges had to take these powers to municipalities, who refused to lose. This resistance, the corruption in which fell the judges and their deputies and clashes among themselves, not allowed they appeared authentic collegiate systems for the government of Castilla-health. This was at least the intention of the Catholic Monarchs. They at least put the legislative basis for they began to run such courts, the Protomedicato and Protoalbeiterato.