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

Abstract

Introduction 1. The economic background: monetisation and monetary consciousness in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries 2. The Aristotelian model of money and economic exchange 3. The earliest Latin commentaries on the Aristotelian model of economic exchange: Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas 4. Models of economic equality and equalisation in the thirteenth century 5. Evolving models of money and market exchange in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries 6. Linking the scholastic model of money as measure to proto-scientific innovations in fourteenth-century natural philosophy 7. Linking scholastic models of monetised exchange to innovations in fourteenth-century mathematics and natural philosophy.