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Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand: Logic, University, and Society in Late Medieval Vienna
By (Author) Michael H. Shank
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
14th July 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Theology
History of religion
History
273.6
Paperback
276
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
482g
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. I