![]() ![]() It was only the abrupt entry of Islam on the scene, in the course of the seventh century, and the conquest of the eastern, southern and western shores of the great European lake, which altered the position, with consequences which were to influence the whole course of subsequent history. "the barbarian kingdoms, founded in the fifth century in the soil of Western Europe, still preserved the most striking and essential characteristics of ancient civilisation, to wit, its Mediterranean character. ![]() No greater summary of the Pirenne thesis can be given than by Henri Pirenne himself in the introduction to this book: The Pirenne thesis is further elaborated in this dense and somewhat antiquated but still valuable and insightful bookįirst coming to prominence in his monumental Mohammed and Charlemagne, Pirenne here expands and defends his notion of the decline of antiquity and the creation of a Medieval society. ![]()
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