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Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century : Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought.
A brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by rapid monetisation in European society.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The economic background: Monetization and monetary consciousness in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; Chapter 2 The Aristotelian model of money and economic exchange; Chapter 3 The earliest Latin commentaries on the Aristotelian model of economic exchange: Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas; Chapter 4 Models of economic equality and equalization in the thirteenth century; Chapter 5 Evolving models of money and market exchange in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
- Chapter 6 Linking the scholastic model of money as measure to proto-scientific innovations in fourteenth-century natural philChapter 7 Linking scholastic models of monetized exchange to innovations in fourteenth-century mathematics and natural philos; Bibliography; Index; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth series.