Joel Kaye

A History of Balance, 1250-1375

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 759g
• ISBN-13: 9781316620281
• ISBN-10: 131662028X
• Artikelnr.: 45331553

Autorenporträt

Joel Kaye is a Professor in the Department of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. His previous publications include Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (Cambridge, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Equality and equalization in the economic sphere, part I:
the scholastic discourse on usury to 1300; 2. Equality and equalization in
the economic sphere, part II: the scholastic discourse on price and value
to 1300; 3. Balance in medieval medical theory, part I: the legacy of
Galen; 4. Balance in medieval medical theory, part II: the scholastic
reception and refinement of Galenic balance to c.1315; 5. Evolving models
of equalization in medieval political thought, c.1250-1325; 6. The new
model of equilibrium in medieval political thought, part I: the Defensor
Pacis of Marsilius of Padua; 7. The new model of equilibrium in medieval
political thought, part II: the writings of Nicole Oresme; 8. The new model
of equilibrium in scholastic natural philosophy, c.1325-75; Conclusion;
Bibliography.