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Siraisi documents Canon-centred examinations that closed the medical labour market

The 1987 Princeton monograph describes Italian faculties in which graduation and college membership turned on Canon lectures and disputations. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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The 1987 Princeton monograph describes Italian faculties in which graduation and college membership turned on Canon lectures and disputations. The dated carrier is Siraisi. A closed exam on one encyclopedia is a guild gate: it tightens who may legally practise and who may not.

Context

Guild quality control and exclusion are twins. Split later critical editions as access.

Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

High confidence on the faculty practice as described, medium on later wage series.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Named physician-philosopher as heading of later editions, faculties, and commemorations. Printers, faculties, and agencies publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactSiraisi documents Canon-centred examinations that closed the medical labour market
    2. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 January 1987 · verified

    High confidence on the faculty practice as described, medium on later wage series.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Moosavi — The Place of Avicenna in the History of MedicinePubMed Central · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Siraisi, Avicenna in Renaissance Italy (Princeton)Princeton University Press · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactSiraisi documents Canon-centred examinations that closed the medical labour market
  3. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). Siraisi documents Canon-centred examinations that closed the medical labour market. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-faculty-exam-canon-guild

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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