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Joel B. Kaye
Professor of History
Joel B. Kaye, professor of history, joined the Barnard faculty in 1992. In addition to his teaching duties in the department of history, Professor Kaye is affiliated with Barnard's medieval and Renaissance studies program. He has taught such courses as "Medieval Intellectual Life," "Introduction to the Later Middle Ages," "Introduction to Historical Theory and Method," "Medieval Economic Life and Thought," and "Medieval Science and Society."
Professor Kaye's scholarly interests center on medieval intellectual history, with special interests in the history of science and the history of economic and political thought. His research and scholarship have been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies; the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers; the National Science Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor Kaye's book Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought, earned the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America as the best first book by an author in medieval studies.
His article "The Impact of Money on the Development of Fourteenth-Century Scientific Thought," won the 1990 Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize of the Medieval Academy of America for best published article by a first-time author in medieval studies.
Professor Kaye's recent research centers on the history of balance in the later Middle Ages. He is working on a book that tracks the emergence of a new model of equilibrium within medieval scholastic thought, 1250-1375.
Selected Publications
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe, co-edited with R. M. Karras and E. A. Matter (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
"Law, Magic, and Science: Constructing a Border between Licit and Illicit Knowledge in the Writings of Nicole Oresme," in Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe, ed. R. M. Karras, J. Kaye, and E. A. Matter (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
"The (Re)Balance of Nature, c.1250-c.1350," in Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. B. Hanawalt and L. Kiser (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008)
"Changing Definitions of Nature, Money, and Equality c.1140-1270, Reflected in Thomas Aquinas' Questions on Usury," in Credito e usura fra teologia, diritto e amministratione, ed. D. Quaglioni, et al. (Ecole Francaise de Rome, 2005)
The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Supplemental Volume I (vol. 14), associate editor (Scribner's Sons, 2004)
"Money and Administrative Calculation as Reflected in Scholastic Natural Philosophy," in Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe, ed. D. Glimp and M. Warren (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1998; paperback edition, 2000)
"The Impact of Money on the Development of Fourteenth-Century Scientific Thought," Journal of Medieval History 14 (1988)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., University of Wisconsin
M.A., University of Massachusetts
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Medieval history
History of economic thought
History of science