Economy and nature in the fourteenth century : money, market exchange, and the emergence of scientific thought / Joel Kaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaye, Joel, 1946- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 35.

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--History.

Money.

Exchange--History.

Exchange.

Science, Medieval--Philosophy.

Science, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Economy & Nature in the Fourteenth Century

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scientific thought. This book searches for influences both within and beyond university culture, and argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by the contemporary rapid monetisation of European society. It analyses the impact of the monetised market place on the most characteristic concern of natural philosophy of the period: its preoccupation with measurement, gradation, and the quantification of qualities.

Contents:

Economic background: monetization and monetary consciousness in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Aristotelian model of money and economic exchange

Earliest Latin commentaries on the Aristotelian model of economic exchange: Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas

Models of economic equality and equalization in the thirteenth century

Evolving models of money and market exchange in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Linking the scholastic model of money as measure to proto-scientific innovations in fourteenth-century natural philosophy

Linking scholastic models of monetized exchange to innovations in fourteenth-century mathematics and natural philosophy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index.

ISBN:

9780511002878

0511002874

9781280161698

1280161698

9780511116544

0511116543

9780511149610

0511149611

9780511309762

0511309767

9780511496523

0511496524

9780511053733

0511053738

OCLC:

437072453

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32799 hdl