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A History of Balance, 1250-1375
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Artikel-Nr:
9781316620281
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.06.2016
Seiten:
530
Autor:
Joel Kaye
Gewicht:
759 g
Format:
229x152x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Kaye, Joel
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).
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).
This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.
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.