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  3. Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
1998
Online ISBN:
9780511496523
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496523
Subjects:
History of Science, British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, General Science
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (35)
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Book description

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.

Awards

Winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize

Reviews

‘Medievalists have neglected the history of ideas in our generation, but this study shows how it should be revived and practiced.’

John W. Baldwin Source: The American Historical Review

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