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Mohammed & Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne

Distinguished historian Averil Cameron introduces this seminal book about the origins of the Middle Ages. In 1937, two years after its author’s death, Henri Pirenne’s Mohammed & Charlemagne appeared, challenging Edward Gibbon’s view of the fall of the Roman Empire and the development of early Medieval Europe. The ‘Pirenne thesis’ held that ‘the cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam.’ The questions that he raised – particularly about how we view and define our past – remain critical to our understanding of the world we live in. For him, the Germanic invaders were neither simply the progenitors of Western Europe, nor were they responsible for the final collapse of the Roman Empire. To Pirenne, once the Romans ‘abandoned the struggle’, the barbarians in effect became assimilated with the civilisation they had invaded.

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• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2013
• Brown Cloth Hardback, 260 pp
• With colour and black & white plates.
• Size 240 x 160mm, 1.1kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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