Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade by Henri Pirenne

Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade

Henri Pirenne

272 pages first pub 1925 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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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, but rather the...

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