Books by Joel (Barnard College Kaye

This groundbreaking history of balance reveals how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period. Although the ideal of balance and its central place in the workings of nature and society remained unchanged, a greatly expanded sense of what balance is, and can be, developed.

A brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by rapid monetisation in European society.