by Henri Pirenne · Altaya · tapa dura · ISBN 9788448707057
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«Mahoma y Carlomagno» is the historical essay by Henri Pirenne, published by Altaya in hardback (229 pages, in Spanish).
In this essay, Pirenne studies the end of the ancient world and the origin of the Middle Ages. Pirenne denies that the Germanic invasions destroyed Roman civilization: it was Islamic expansion that closed the Mediterranean and separated West from East. That shift prompted the Frankish kings to ally with the papacy and prepared Carolingian Europe.
Published in 1996 within the collection Grandes Obras de Historia.
For those interested in medieval history and historiographical debates.
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.
