History of Balance, 1250-1375 - The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and Its Impact on Thought

This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

This groundbreaking history of balance reveals how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period. Although the ideal of balance and its central place in the workings of nature and society remained unchanged, a greatly expanded sense of what balance is, and can be, developed.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Kaye, Joel (Barnard College Kaye, Kaye Joel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2014
• EAN: 9781107028456
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02845-6
• No. of pages: 530
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, History and Archaeology