Joel Kaye

Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century (eBook, PDF)

Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511038495
• Artikelnr.: 38185584

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The economic background: monetisation and monetary
consciousness in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; 2. The
Aristotelian model of money and economic exchange; 3. The earliest Latin
commentaries on the Aristotelian model of economic exchange: Albertus
Magnus and Thomas Aquinas; 4. Models of economic equality and equalisation
in the thirteenth century; 5. Evolving models of money and market exchange
in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; 6. Linking the scholastic
model of money as measure to proto-scientific innovations in
fourteenth-century natural philosophy; 7. Linking scholastic models of
monetised exchange to innovations in fourteenth-century mathematics and
natural philosophy.