Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century
Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; 35;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 12 February 1998
- ISBN 9780521572767
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 229x152x17 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought.
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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.
'Medievalists have neglected the history of ideas in our generation, but this study shows how it should be revived and practiced.' John W. Baldwin, The American Historical Review
Table of Contents:
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.
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