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Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought

By Joel Kaye

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0521572762, 9780521572767
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1998674 bytes)
Series
Volume 35 of Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Pages
287\287
Topic
History
Time added
2019-11-23 17:03:38

Description

Intellectual developments pioneered by scholastic natural philosophers of the fourteenth century constituted a critical stage in the emergence of scientific thought. Beneath these technical developments lay a profound reconceptualization of nature. The purpose of this book is to analyze the components of this reconceptualization, and to speculate on the influences that shaped it. It argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c. 1260-1380 was strongly influenced by the rapid monetization of European society during the same period.

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