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Book Mohammed  Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe

Download or read book Mohammed Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe written by Richard Hodges and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Book Mohammed  Charlemagne   the Origins of Europe

Download or read book Mohammed Charlemagne the Origins of Europe written by Richard Hodges and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise book, Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse review the 'Pirenne thesis' in the light of archaeological information from northern Europe, the Mediterranean and western Asia.

Book Medieval Cities

Download or read book Medieval Cities written by Henri Pirenne and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This little volume contains the substance of lectures ... delivered from October to December 1922 in several American universities."--Pref. Bibliography: p. [245]-249.

Book The Pirenne Thesis

Download or read book The Pirenne Thesis written by Alfred F. Havighurst and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Cities

Download or read book Medieval Cities written by Henri Pirenne and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1925 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This little volume contains the substance of lectures ... delivered from October to December 1922 in several American universities."--Pref. Bibliography: p. [245]-249.

Book Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe

Download or read book Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe written by Henri Pirenne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in 1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century.

Book The Pirenne Thesis

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  • Author : Henri Pirenne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book The Pirenne Thesis written by Henri Pirenne and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henri Pirenne  Historian

Download or read book Henri Pirenne Historian written by Sarah Keymeulen and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) was a Belgian historian of international stature. He had an intellectual reputation that extended far beyond the borders of his own country. This book is not merely a writer's oeuvre. It is a life in pictures.

Book The Pirenne thesis

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  • Author : Alfred F. Havighurst
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book The Pirenne thesis written by Alfred F. Havighurst and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pirenne Thesis Analysis Criticism and Revision

Download or read book The Pirenne Thesis Analysis Criticism and Revision written by Alfred F. Havighurst and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sixth Century

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  • Author : Richard Hodges
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1997-12-31
  • ISBN : 9789004109803
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Sixth Century written by Richard Hodges and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-12-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his assessment of the transformation of the Roman World Henri Pirenne assigned little significance to the sixth century, seeing it primarily as a period of continuity. In this volume twelve scholars assess the period in the light of new evidence and new perspectives. The result is an infinitely complex picture, covering Scandinavia and Central Europe as well as the western Mediterranean, in which continuity and change exist side by side.

Book The Pirenne Thesis Analysis Criticism and Revision   Scholar s Choice Edition

Download or read book The Pirenne Thesis Analysis Criticism and Revision Scholar s Choice Edition written by Alfred F. Havighurst and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Mohammed   Charlemagne Revisited

Download or read book Mohammed Charlemagne Revisited written by Emmet Scott and published by World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s Belgian historian Henri Pirenne came to an astonishing conclusion: the ancient classical civilization, which Rome had established throughout Europe and the Mediterranean world, was not destroyed by the Barbarians who invaded the western provinces in the fifth century, it was destroyed by the Arabs, whose conquest of the Middle East and North Africa terminated Roman civilization in those regions and cut off Europe from any further trading and cultural contact with the East. According to Pirenne, it was only in the mid-seventh century that the characteristic features of classical life disappeared from Europe, after which time the continent began to develop its own distinctive and somewhat primitive medieval culture. Pirenne's findings, published posthumously in his Mohammed et Charlemagne (1937), were even then highly controversial, for by the late nineteenth century many historians were moving towards a quite different conclusion: namely that the Arabs were actually a civilizing force who rekindled the light of classical learning in Europe after it had been extinguished by the Goths, Vandals and Huns in the fifth century. And because Pirenne went so diametrically against the grain of this thinking, the reception of his new thesis tended to be hostile. Paper after paper published during the 1940s and '50s strove to refute him. The most definitive rebuttal however appeared in the early 1980s. This was Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe, by English archaeologists Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse. These, in common with Pirenne's earlier critics, argued that classical civilization was already dead in Europe by the time of the Arab conquests, and that the Arabs arrived on the scene as civilizers rather than destroyers. Hodges and Whitehouse claimed that the latest findings of archaeology fully supported this view, and their work was highly influential. So influential indeed that over the next three decades Pirenne and his thesis was progressively sidelined, so that recent years have seen the publication of dozens of titles in the English language alone which fail even to mention his name. In Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited historian Emmet Scott reviews the evidence put forward by Hodges and Whitehouse, as well as the more recent findings of archaeology, and comes to a rather different conclusion. For him, the evidence shows that classical civilization was not dead in Europe at the start of the seventh century, but was actually experiencing something of a revival. Populations and towns were beginning to grow again for the first time since this second century - a development apparently attributable largely to the spread of Christianity. In addition, the real centres of classical civilization, in the Middle East, were experiencing an unprecedented Golden Age at the time, with cities larger and more prosperous than ever before. Excavation has shown that these were destroyed thoroughly and completely by the Arab conquests, with many never again reoccupied. And it was precisely then, says Scott, that Europe's classical culture also disappeared, with the abandonment of the undefended lowland villas and farms of the Roman period and a retreat to fortified hilltop settlements; the first medieval castles. For Scott, archaeology demonstrated that the Arabs did indeed blockade the Mediterranean through piracy and slave-raiding, precisely as Pirenne had claimed, and he argues that the disappearance of papyrus from Europe was an infallible proof of this. Whatever classical learning survived after this time, says Scott, was due almost entirely to the efforts of Christian monks. The Pirenne thesis has taken on a new significance in the post 9/11 world. Scott's take on the theory will certainly ignite further and perhaps heated debate.

Book The Expansion of the Early Islamic State

Download or read book The Expansion of the Early Islamic State written by Fred M. Donner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a selection of the key studies in which leading scholars since the beginning of the 20th century attempt to explain the phenomenally rapid expansion of the early Islamic state during the 7th century CE. The articles debate the causes for the conquest movement or expansion, the reasons for its success, the nature of the movement itself, the impact the expansion had on the countries affected by it, and the complex questions surrounding the sources on which historians have constructed their views of the expansion, and the reliability (or lack of it) of those sources. No articles devoted to the actual conquest of a given locality are included-hundreds exist-but a fairly extensive bibliography lists many of the more important contributions in this genre. The editor's introduction addresses the phenomenon of the expansion and how scholars have approached and grappled with it.

Book The Long Eighth Century

Download or read book The Long Eighth Century written by Inge Lyse Hansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major reassessment of the archaeological and documentary evidence for the economic history of eighth-century Europe and the Mediterranean.

Book The Pirenne Thesis

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  • Author : Alfred Freeman Havighurst
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book The Pirenne Thesis written by Alfred Freeman Havighurst and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dark Age Economics

Download or read book Dark Age Economics written by Richard Hodges and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: