by Henri Pirenne · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420622149
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Muhammad and Charlemagne is a historical essay by the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne, published posthumously by his son Jacques Pirenne. In this book, Pirenne presents his thesis on the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing that the expansion of Islam and not the Germanic invasions was the determining factor that broke the unity of the Mediterranean and gave rise to a new civilization in Western Europe. This work offers an innovative perspective on medieval history and has been the subject of debate and analysis by numerous historians.
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.
