Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand: Logic, University, and Society in Late Medieval Vienna

by Michael H. Shank

Book Overview

Founded in 1365, not long after the Great Plague ravaged Europe, the University of Vienna was revitalized in 1384 by prominent theologians displaced from Paris--among them Henry of Langenstein. Beginning with the 1384 revival, Michael Shank explores the history of the university and its ties with European intellectual life and the city of Vienna. In so doing he links the abstract discussions of university theologians with the burning of John Hus and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691055238
• ISBN13: 9780691055237
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"