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Course Offerings:
Education:
- B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Teaching Specialties:
- Medieval intellectual, economic, political history, history of science
- Historical theory and method
Current Research Interests:
- Intersection of social experience and scientific thought
- History of equilibrium
Recent Publications:
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Economy and
Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and
the Emergence of Scientific Thought
(Cambridge University Press, 1998). Reissued in Paperback
Edition, 2000.
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Associate Editor, The Dictionary of the Middle Ages,
Supplemental Volume I (vol. 14), under the editorship of William
Jordan and the auspices of the American Council of Learned
Societies (Scribner’s Sons, 2004).
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Co-editor (with Ruth Mazo Karras and Ann Matter), Law and
the Illicit in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania
Press, Forthcoming, 2007).
--- Articles
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“Law and Science: Constructing a Border between Licit and Illicit
Knowledge in the Writings of Nicole Oresme,” in Law and the
Illicit in the Middle Ages, ed. Ruth Karras, Joel Kaye, and
Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania Press, Forthcoming,
2007).
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“The (Re)Balance
of Nature, c. 1250-c. 1350,” in Nature in the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance, ed. Barbara Hanawalt and Lisa Kiser (The
University of Notre Dame Press, Forthcoming, 2007).
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"Changing
Definitions of Nature, Money, and Equality c. 1140-1270,
Reflected in Thomas Aquinas' Questions on Usury," in Credito
e usura fra teologia, dirritto e amministantione. Linguaggi a
confronto (sec. X11-XVI, ed. D. Quaglioni, G. Todeschini,
and G. M. Varanini
(École française de Rome, 2005), 25-55.
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"Money and
Administrative Calculation as Reflected in Scholastic Natural
Philosophy," in Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in
Early Modern Europe, ed. David Glimp and Michelle Warren (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2004)1-18
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“Just Price,”
in The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. William Jordan,
Joel Kaye, and Lynn Staley (Scribner’s Sons, New York, 2004).
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"The Power of Relative Thinking: Medieval
Anticipations of Copernicus," for Fathom, Columbia
University, et. al., 2001.
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"Monetary and Market Consciousness in Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Century Europe," in Ancient and Medieval Economic
Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice, ed. S. Todd Lowry and
Barry Gordon (E.J. Brill: Leiden, 1998), 371-403.
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"The Impact of Money on the Development of Fourteenth-Century
Scientific Thought," Journal of Medieval History, 14
(1988), 251-70.
Prizes and Honors:
- 2004-05: Resident Fellowship, Institute for
Advance Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ.
- 2004-05: National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship. Full Award.
- 2002: John Nicholas Brown Prize.
Awarded
annually by the Medieval Academy of America to the best first book in any area of medieval
studies. For: Economy and Nature in the
Fourteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
- 2001-02: National Science Foundation. Project
Grant: Science and Technology Studies, for
the book project: “Culture in the Balance.
The
Creation of a New Model of Equilibrium in Medieval Thought, 1225-1375.”
- 2000-03 : Associate Editor, Supplemental Volume to the Thirteen Volume
Dictionary of
the Middle Ages, Published by Scribners in Collaboration with the American Council of
Learned Societies.
- 2000: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 2000: Mellon Faculty Assistance
Grant
- 1994: Gladys Brooks Prize. Barnard College.
Excellence in Junior Faculty Teaching.
- 1990: Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize. Medieval
Academy of America. Best published article by a first-time
author in any field of medieval studies.
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