by Henri Pirenne · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420692807
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«Mahoma y Carlomagno» is the historical essay by Henri Pirenne, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
The essay argues that Antiquity does not end with the Germanic invasions, but with the Muslim expansion. Pirenne maintains that the closure of Mediterranean trade routes by the Arabs shifted Europe's center of gravity northward and fostered a new medieval civilization. Islam would thus be the true breaking point between the Ancient Age and the Middle Ages.
1985 edition, corresponding to number 80 of the Biblioteca Fundamental de Nuestro Tiempo collection.
For readers of historical essays interested in the fall of the Roman Empire, the emergence of medieval Europe, and the role of the Mediterranean in that change.
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.
