Henri Pirenne (French: [piʁɛn]; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume...
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ongoing process of transforming Roman institutions. Henri Pirenne continued this idea with the "Pirenne Thesis", published in the 1920s, which remains influential...
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Mahomet et Charlemagne) is an academic book by the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) which was first published posthumously in 1937. It set out...
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Maurice Henri Léonard Pirenne (30 May 1912, Verviers–11 October 1978, Oxford) was a Belgian scientist known for his work in vision physiology. Pirenne was...
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Maurice Pirenne (1878, Verviers–November 25, 1968, Verviers) was a Belgian painter. Maurice Lucien Henri Joseph Marie Pirenne was the son of Virginie...
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and Belgian History at the University of Liège. One of his students, Henri Pirenne, became a noted historian. Léon-Ernest Halkin considered them the founders...
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Brabandere [nl] 1912–1915: Henri Schoentjes 1916–1918: Pierre Hoffmann 1918–1919: Henri Schoentjes 1919–1921: Henri Pirenne 1921–1923: Eugène Eeman 1923–1924:...
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comparisons with the French Revolution. Some historians, following Henri Pirenne, have seen it as a key moment in the formation of a Belgian nation-state...
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the granddaughter of the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne through her father Jacques Pirenne, Jacqueline Pirenne attended the Lycée Molière in Paris (16th...
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the field from historians writing in the 1930s, including Marc Bloch, Henri Pirenne, Wilhelm Abel, and Michael Postan. Referring to the crisis in Italy...
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empire would be united by a common Christian faith. This is the view of Henri Pirenne, who says that "Charles was the Emperor of the ecclesia as the Pope...
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657. He is often regarded as an early roi fainéant. Belgian historian Henri Pirenne stated that Clovis "died insane." Clovis II was buried in Saint Denis...
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limited group of families with a special constitutional position, in Henri Pirenne's view, was the motive force. In 19th century Central Europe, the term...
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Middle Ages, but while earlier scholars like the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne believed that this "surplus" of women was caused by men dying in war...
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and the Renaissance (1963) online Pirenne, Henri. Belgian Democracy Its Early History (1915) online Pirenne, Henri. "The Formation and Constitution of...
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Belgium') is a seven-volume survey of the Belgian history by the historian Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) written in French and published between 1900 and 1932. The...
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1991, 164 Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed, Frank Puaux, "Huguenot" Henri Pirenne (2001). Mahomet et Charlemagne (reprint of 1937 classic) (in French)...
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more relative sense of natural economy. Belgian economic historian Henri Pirenne noted that medieval Europe has often been described as a natural economy...
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Louis was killed at the Battle of Crécy in 1346. The Belgian historian Henri Pirenne published the first major historical study of the rebellion in 1900...
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Literature. Columbia University Press. p. 273 of 331. ISBN 0-231-01767-7. Henri Pirenne (1937). Mohammed and Charlemagne Archived 8 April 2015 at the Wayback...
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decade it was published it maintained a staunchly left-wing position. Henri Pirenne, a Belgian historian who wrote comparative history, closely supported...
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pp. 36–42. Francesco Gabrieli, André Guillou, Bryce Lyon, Jacques Henri Pirenne, Heiko Steuer: Mohammed und Karl der Große. Belser Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-7630-2097-7...
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France. Henri Pirenne gives an estimate of 50,000 men for the Dutch army. Jeremy Black provides a lower estimate of 36,000 men and 72 cannon. Pirenne 1948...
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he hated war but did not lack energy.[citation needed] According to Henri Pirenne, "At the end of the 12th century Languedoc was swarming with those mystics...
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suggestion that the word scarlet originated in the Germanic languages. Henri Pirenne, in an argument elaborated by Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin, argued that the...
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intellectual foundation for Belgian nationalism was the Walloon historian Henri Pirenne, who argued for the existence of a distinct Belgian nation in his book...
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time of Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), scholars have described a continuity of Roman culture and political legitimacy long after 476.: 5–7 Pirenne postponed...
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Middle Ages as a period of recession and crisis. Belgian historian Henri Pirenne continued the subdivision of Early, High, and late Middle Ages in the...
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"Burgundian State" was coined in the 19th century by the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne in his Histoire de Belgique to describe what he saw as the precursor...
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McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development Eileen Power (1889–1940)...
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