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Course Offerings:
Education:
- B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Teaching Specialties:
- Medieval intellectual history, history of economic
and political theory, 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.
(Link to eBook)
- 2005-07: Co-editor (with Ruth Mazo Karras and
E. Ann Matter), Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
- 2001-03 : Associate Editor, Supplemental
Volume to the Thirteen Volume Dictionary of the Middle Ages,
published by Scribner’s Sons in collaboration with the American
Council of Learned Societies (New York, 2004).
---Articles
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“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. Ruth Karras, Joel
Kaye, and E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2008).
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“The (Re)Balance of
Nature, 1250-1350,” in Engaging with Nature: Essays
on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,
ed. Barbara Hanawalt and Lisa Kiser (The University of Notre
Dame Press, 2008).
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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, diritto e amministatione.
Linguaggi a confronto (sec.
XII-XVI),
ed.
D. Quaglioni, G. Todeschini, and G.M. Varanini
(École Française de Rome,
2005), 25-55.
(Link to Article)
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“Money and
Administrative Calculation as Reflected in Scholastic
Natural Philosophy," in Arts of Calculation: Numerical
Thought in Early Modern Europe, ed. David Glimp and Michelle
Warren (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 1-18.
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“The Just Price,” in
The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Supplementary Volume
1, 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 Web Site, Columbia University, et al.,
Published, May, 2002.
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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 Gordan
(E.J. Brill: Leiden, 1998), 371-404.
(Link to Article)
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"The Impact of Money on
the Development of Fourteenth-Century Scientific Thought,"
Journal of Medieval History, 14 (1988), 251-70.
Academic and Professional Honors:
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2007-08: Resident
Fellowship, New York Public Library, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and
Writers.
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2004-05: Resident
Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical
Studies, Princeton, N.J.
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2004-05: (NEH) National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
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2002: John Nicholas Brown
Prize. Awarded annually by the Medieval Academy of America to
the best first book in the area of medieval studies, for:
Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century (Cambridge
University Press, 1998).
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2001-02: (NSF) National
Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies. Year-long
book project grant for: “Culture in the Balance. The Creation
of a New Model of Equilibrium in Medieval Thought, 1225-1375.”
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2000-01: (NEH) National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
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2000: Visiting Scholar, The
American Academy in Rome.
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1995: Visiting Scholar, The
American Academy in Rome.
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1994: Gladys Brooks Prize.
Barnard College. Excellence in Junior Faculty Teaching.
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1990: Van Courtlandt Elliott
Prize. Medieval Academy of America. Best published article by
a first-time author in the area of medieval studies.
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