Cornelius O'Boyle
University of Notre Dame
7 Papers
123 Citations
Cornelius O'Boyle is an academic researcher from University of Notre Dame. The author has contributed to research in topics: Middle Ages & Astrology. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
Medicine before the plague: practitioners and their patients in the crown of Aragon 1285–1345
TL;DR: El Hospital is an overview of four centuries in the history of the hospital presented by way of lists of data, generally devoid of historical analysis, which will provide for the specialist an indication of the range of documents available in the Salamanca archives and will prove useful as a source of information on which to base further research.
Books of the body: anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning
TL;DR: This English translation of the original Italian version, entitled La fabbrica del corpo (1994), is substantially the same text, except that it now appears with an epilogue, bibliography and index.
Death in England: an illustrated history
TL;DR: In charting changing attitudes towards death in England from Neolithic times to the present, this collection of essays addresses many themes relevant to medical history, including the gradual medicalization of death during the twentieth century.
Astrology and medicine in later Medieval England the calendars of John Somer and Nicholas of Lynn.
Cornelius O'Boyle
- 01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In astronomical terms, John's and Nicholas' work was merely a new instalment of a calendar that had been used in England since the thirteenth century for calculating the date of Easter, which was not particularly new at all.
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