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by Henri Pirenne · Alianza · tapa blanda · 176 pages
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Este libro, escrito por Henri Pirenne, es un estudio sobre las ciudades durante la Edad Media europea. Pirenne argumenta que la expansión musulmana y no las invasiones germánicas fue lo que interrumpió la unidad económica del Imperio Romano, lo que llevó a un período de decadencia mercantil. El libro explora cómo las rutas comerciales se revitalizaron y cómo los núcleos urbanos marcaron el comienzo de una nueva era, con el ascenso de la burguesía frente al clero y la nobleza.

Henri Pirenne was a Belgian nationalist and historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a prominent public intellectual. Pirenne made a lasting contribution to the study of cities that was a controversial interpretation of the end of Roman civilization and the rebirth of medieval urban culture. He also became prominent in the nonviolent resistance to the Germans who occupied Belgium in World War I.