Marjorie O’rourke Boyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie O’rourke Boyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie O’rourke |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyle |
| SIGNATURE | BOYLE M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aristotle's Delphic Knife
The subject of this article is the classical Greek history of religion, particularly ritual sacrifice in relation to political ethics. This article recovers the lost meaning of the Delphic knife made by coppersmiths that Aristotle’s Politics (1.2 1252b) contrasted with the city famously made by Nature. It dismisses traditional conjectures about the knife as historically inaccurate about its craft and philosophically uninformed about Aristotle’s d…
Petrarch's Genius
Aquinas’s Natural Heart
Thomas Aquinas significantly revised Aristotelian cardiocentrism on the origin and act of the passions of the soul. His Summa theologiae and other writings asserted the primacy of the soul over the body to argue for the cause of the passions as an alteration of the soul, which affected cardiac movements. Aquinas revised the Aristotelian tradition that the soul existed in the body as domiciled in the heart, the primary organ, as its vital principl…
Harvey in the sluice
The most important discovery in the history of medicine, the blood's circulation, owed to the most valued invention after the wheel in the history of engineering, the pound lock. The celebrated anatomist William Harvey compared the venous membranes to sluice gates, as a model for the prevention of the blood's reflux. With empirical method he observed hydraulic engineering in London, where he practiced medicine, and Padua, where he studied medicin…
Broken Hearts
Journal Article Broken Hearts: The Violation of Biblical Law Get access Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle Independent scholar and an associate member of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 73, Issue 3, September 2005, Pages 731–757, https://doi.org/10.…
In the Heart of the Sea”
Pure of Heart
The philosopher who published Plato for Western thought praised him strangely. Marsilio Ficino commended his translation of the Phaedrus to his soul mate Iohannes Bessarion because in that dialogue Plato sought from God spiritual beauty. "When this gold was given to Plato by God, it shone in him most brilliantly, because he was so pure in heart." The epithet "pure in heart" is not literally Ficino's diction: he wrote "in his Platonic bosom perfec…
The Colloquies of Erasmus. Volumes 39 and 40, Collected Works of Erasmus
Erasmus of the Low Countries
James D. Tracy. Erasmus of the Low Countries. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. viii+ 297 pp. $40. ISBN 0-520-08745-3 - Kathy Eden. Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the Ancient Legacy and Its Humanist Reception. (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics.) New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. viii+ 120pp. $20. ISBN 0-300-06694-5 - Volume 51 Issue 3
Montaigne's Consubstantial Book
Jen'ay pas plus faict mon livre que mon livre m'a faict, livre consubstantiel à son autheur ... ” (I have not made my book any more than my book has made me, a book consubstantial with its author). That was no ordinary assertion in plain language. Montaigne explained his Essais as “concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand extraneous purpose, like all other books.” Its subject was uniquely himself…
Petrarch’s Genius
Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career. Petrarch, she argues, has been misunderstood by the division of his literary enterprise into two sides--Petrarch the poet, Petrarch the humanist reformer-…
Essays on the Works of Erasmus
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Erasmus' Prescription for Henry VIII
An encounter at Eltham palace between a wandering scholar and a prince prompted an engaging gift of verse from the visitor. ‘For the present I have dedicated these small gifts to you as toys for your boyish age, intending to bring richer offerings when virtuous manhood, increasing with your years, shall furnish me with richer themes for my verse.’ So wrote Erasmus of Rotterdam, anticipating that eight-year-old Henry would illuminate good literatu…
The Eponyms of `Desiderius Erasmus
If, as Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus instructed the schoolboys of Europe, names are indices of reality, what truth of nature or character did he perceive in his own name? The inventive author who invested the act of naming with gravity and wit, punning Folly from More, dubbing his colloquial characters aptly as ‘Cocles’ or ‘Eusebius', reviewed and revised his own name with humanist concern for the alignment of verba with res. As a student he dut…
Sermo
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation
Erasmus said they were "like cuckoo calling to cuckoo": those authors of manuals that advised confessors on the conduct of the sacrament of Penance.Cuckoos are notoriously mimetic, have unusual breeding habits, and are parasitic on other birds
Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume 3, The Correspondence of Erasmus, Letters 298 to 445
204 / Renaissance and Reformation doute place ici pour une étude de l'écriture en tant que médiation, et non pas seulement en tant que source et résolution des problèmes de filiation textuelle ou encore en tant que miroir d'un "écrivain d'humeur" (p.226) soucieux de bien ménager ses patrons.De la part de l'analyste, ceci ne saurait que déboucher sur une vague étude psychologique de l'auteur ou, pis encore, de l'époque, comme semble le laisser ent…
Montaigne's Consubstantial Book
Jen'ay pas plus faict mon livre que mon livre m'a faict, livre consubstantiel à son autheur ... ” (I have not made my book any more than my book has made me, a book consubstantial with its author). That was no ordinary assertion in plain language. Montaigne explained his Essais as “concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand extraneous purpose, like all other books.” Its subject was uniquely himself…
The Eponyms of `Desiderius Erasmus
If, as Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus instructed the schoolboys of Europe, names are indices of reality, what truth of nature or character did he perceive in his own name? The inventive author who invested the act of naming with gravity and wit, punning Folly from More, dubbing his colloquial characters aptly as ‘Cocles’ or ‘Eusebius', reviewed and revised his own name with humanist concern for the alignment of verba with res. As a student he dut…
Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation
Erasmus said they were "like cuckoo calling to cuckoo": those authors of manuals that advised confessors on the conduct of the sacrament of Penance.Cuckoos are notoriously mimetic, have unusual breeding habits, and are parasitic on other birds
Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume 3, The Correspondence of Erasmus, Letters 298 to 445
204 / Renaissance and Reformation doute place ici pour une étude de l'écriture en tant que médiation, et non pas seulement en tant que source et résolution des problèmes de filiation textuelle ou encore en tant que miroir d'un "écrivain d'humeur" (p.226) soucieux de bien ménager ses patrons.De la part de l'analyste, ceci ne saurait que déboucher sur une vague étude psychologique de l'auteur ou, pis encore, de l'époque, comme semble le laisser ent…
The Correspondence of Erasmus
The Eponyms of `Desiderius Erasmus
If, as Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus instructed the schoolboys of Europe, names are indices of reality, what truth of nature or character did he perceive in his own name? The inventive author who invested the act of naming with gravity and wit, punning Folly from More, dubbing his colloquial characters aptly as ‘Cocles’ or ‘Eusebius', reviewed and revised his own name with humanist concern for the alignment of verba with res. As a student he dut…
Sermo
Erasmus' Prescription for Henry VIII
An encounter at Eltham palace between a wandering scholar and a prince prompted an engaging gift of verse from the visitor. ‘For the present I have dedicated these small gifts to you as toys for your boyish age, intending to bring richer offerings when virtuous manhood, increasing with your years, shall furnish me with richer themes for my verse.’ So wrote Erasmus of Rotterdam, anticipating that eight-year-old Henry would illuminate good literatu…
Essays on the Works of Erasmus
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Petrarch’s Genius
Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career. Petrarch, she argues, has been misunderstood by the division of his literary enterprise into two sides--Petrarch the poet, Petrarch the humanist reformer-…
Montaigne's Consubstantial Book
Jen'ay pas plus faict mon livre que mon livre m'a faict, livre consubstantiel à son autheur ... ” (I have not made my book any more than my book has made me, a book consubstantial with its author). That was no ordinary assertion in plain language. Montaigne explained his Essais as “concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand extraneous purpose, like all other books.” Its subject was uniquely himself…
The Colloquies of Erasmus. Volumes 39 and 40, Collected Works of Erasmus
Erasmus of the Low Countries
James D. Tracy. Erasmus of the Low Countries. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. viii+ 297 pp. $40. ISBN 0-520-08745-3 - Kathy Eden. Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the Ancient Legacy and Its Humanist Reception. (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics.) New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. viii+ 120pp. $20. ISBN 0-300-06694-5 - Volume 51 Issue 3
Pure of Heart
The philosopher who published Plato for Western thought praised him strangely. Marsilio Ficino commended his translation of the Phaedrus to his soul mate Iohannes Bessarion because in that dialogue Plato sought from God spiritual beauty. "When this gold was given to Plato by God, it shone in him most brilliantly, because he was so pure in heart." The epithet "pure in heart" is not literally Ficino's diction: he wrote "in his Platonic bosom perfec…
In the Heart of the Sea”
Broken Hearts
Journal Article Broken Hearts: The Violation of Biblical Law Get access Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle Independent scholar and an associate member of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 73, Issue 3, September 2005, Pages 731–757, https://doi.org/10.…
Harvey in the sluice
The most important discovery in the history of medicine, the blood's circulation, owed to the most valued invention after the wheel in the history of engineering, the pound lock. The celebrated anatomist William Harvey compared the venous membranes to sluice gates, as a model for the prevention of the blood's reflux. With empirical method he observed hydraulic engineering in London, where he practiced medicine, and Padua, where he studied medicin…
Aquinas’s Natural Heart
Thomas Aquinas significantly revised Aristotelian cardiocentrism on the origin and act of the passions of the soul. His Summa theologiae and other writings asserted the primacy of the soul over the body to argue for the cause of the passions as an alteration of the soul, which affected cardiac movements. Aquinas revised the Aristotelian tradition that the soul existed in the body as domiciled in the heart, the primary organ, as its vital principl…
Petrarch's Genius
Aristotle's Delphic Knife
The subject of this article is the classical Greek history of religion, particularly ritual sacrifice in relation to political ethics. This article recovers the lost meaning of the Delphic knife made by coppersmiths that Aristotle’s Politics (1.2 1252b) contrasted with the city famously made by Nature. It dismisses traditional conjectures about the knife as historically inaccurate about its craft and philosophically uninformed about Aristotle’s d…
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