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Unless you believe, you shall not understand : logic, university, and society in late medieval Vienna
- Title
- Unless you believe, you shall not understand : logic, university, and society in late medieval Vienna / Michael H. Shank.
- Author
- Shank, Michael H.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988.
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- Description
- xvii, 257 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- A study of the early history of the University of Vienna, founded in 1350. Focuses on the views of university theologians, especially Henry of Langenstein (ca. 1325-1397) who believed that Aristotle's syllogistic logic was universally valid. Ch. 6 (p. 139-169), "Langenstein and the Viennese Jews, " suggests, on the basis of a sermon preached in 1396, that he had tried in vain to convert the Viennese Jews by means of this logic. Langenstein must have known members of the Jewish community whose moneylending activities he criticized. As a result of his failure, he lost faith in logic, quoting from Isaiah that religious truths must be accepted on the basis of authority. Ch. 7 (p. 170-200), "Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand, " shows how his successors turned from argument to actual persecution of Hussites and Jews. Rumors of a Hussite-Jewish conspiracy worsened the position of Vienna's Jews, whose quarter was sacked in 1406. In 1421, after another attempt at conversion, 240 Jews were burned at the stake and the community was destroyed.
- Subject
- Heinrich, von Langenstein, approximately 1325-1397
- Heinrich von Langenstein 1325-1397
- Hus, Jan 1369-1415
- Heinrich von Langenstein, (1325-1397) > Contribution à la doctrine de la Trinité
- Universität Wien > History
- Universität Wien
- Universität Wien > Moyen âge
- Wien > Universität
- 600-1500
- Geschichte 1365-1415
- Apologetics > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Logic, Medieval
- Trinity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Christianity and other religions > Judaism
- Judaism > Relations > Christianity
- Christianity and other religions > Judaism > History
- Judaism > Relations > Christianity > History
- Apologetics > Middle Ages
- Christianity
- Interfaith relations
- Judaism
- Trinity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages
- Logik
- Philosophie
- Theologie
- Trinitätslehre
- Universiteiten
- Christianity and other religions > Judaism > 1945- > Congresses
- Trinité > Histoire des doctrines > Moyen âge
- Christianisme > Relations > Judaïsme
- Judaïsme > Relations > Christianisme
- Apologétique
- Logique médiévale
- Vienna (Austria) > Church history
- Austria > Vienna
- Wien
- Vienne (Autriche) > Vie intellectuelle > 15e siècle
- Vienne (Autriche) > Histoire religieuse > Moyen âge
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 221-248.
- Contents
- Vienna and the rise of its University -- Intellectual life in the revived University -- On paralogisms in Trinitarian doctrine : the early fourteenth century -- Trinitarian paralogisms come to Vienna : Henry of Oyta and Henry of Langenstein -- On paralogisms in Trinitarian doctrine : the Viennese students -- Langenstein and the Viennese Jews -- "Unless you believe, you shall not understand -- Appendix : The notebook of Johannes Bremis.
- ISBN
- 0691055238
- 9780691055237
- LCCN
- 87036889
- OCLC
- ocm17353819
- 17353819
- SCSB-1193842
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library