This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.

It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the lawyer’s world really so far apart? To

How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century Fre

Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental role emotions played in the development of learned medicine and in the formation of the social role of the

This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of