Henri Pirenne is best known for his provocative argument--known as the "Pirenne thesis" and familiar to all students of medieval Europe--that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity,...

Mit seiner »Histoire de l’Europe« schuf der berühmte belgische Historiker Henri Pirenne eines der weltweit bedeutendsten Werke zur Geschichte des mittelalterlichen Europa. Wie kaum einem anderen ist es ihm gelungen, die...

A great Belgian historian recounts the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-fifteenth century. Translated by I. E. Clegg.