Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought(Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth

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 th