University of Vienna: Faculty of Arts, Law and Theology

These publications reconstruct the rich intellectual landscape of fifteenth-century Vienna by moving beyond institutional history to examine the circulation of ideas between university classrooms, monasteries, and humanist circles. Drawing on neglected sources, including previously unstudied sermons and newly edited texts by Johannes Schlitpacher, they illuminate the connections linking Aristotelian ethics, legal scholarship, monastic reform, and the reception of Jean Gerson, whose influence helped shape a distinctive form of Austrian humanism that also intersected with the world frequented by Nicholas of Cusa.

 Key publications:

  1. Deux écrits inédits de Jean Schlitpacher et l’influence de Gerson : le De ascensionibus cordis et le De felicitate beatorum, “Noctua. La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno”, XI/1 (2024), 75–155 / ISSN 2284-1180
  2. Following in the footsteps of Buridan and Marsilius of Inghen. John Grössel’s teaching on the Ethica Nicomachea in Vienna (1446), “Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale”, XXXV (2024), 349–390 / ISSN 1122-5750
  3. Bernard of Kraiburg’s Letters and Sermons. A Portrait of Austrian Humanism in mid-15th century, “Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge” [AHDLMA], XC (2023), 163–256 / ISSN 0373-5478