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Mohammed and Charlemagne /

This posthumous work of the renowned scholar Henri Pirenne (originally published in 1939) offered a new and decisive explanation of the evolution of Europe from the time of Constantine to that of Charlemagne. His revolutionary ideas overthrew many of the most cherished conceptions concerning the Mid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pirenne, Henri, 1862-1935
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2008.
Colección:Routledge library editions. Islam ; v. 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; NOTE; Part One WESTERN EUROPE BEFORE ISLAM; I. THE CONTINUATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE WEST AFTER THE GERMANIC INVASIONS; 1. Romania before the Germans; 2. The Invasions; 3. The Germans in Romania
  • 4. The Germanic States in the West; 5. Justinian (527-565); II. THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SITUATION AFTER THE INVASIONS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN NAVIGATION; 1. Personal Property and the Soil; 2. Navigation in the East. Syrians and Jews; 3. Inland Commerce; 4. Money and the Monetary Circulation.
  • III. INTELLECTUAL LIFE AFTER THE INVASIONS1. The Tradition of Antiquity; 2. The Church; 3. Art; 4. The Secular Character of Society; CONCLUSION; Part Two ISLAM AND THE CAROLINGIANS; I. THE EXPANSION OF ISLAM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; 1. The Islamic Invasion; 2. The closing of the Western Mediterranean; 3. Venice and Byzantium; II. THE CAROLlNGIAN COUP D'ÉTAT AND THE VOLTE-FACE OF THE PAPACY; 1. The Merovingian Decadence; 2. The Carolingian Mayors of the Palace; 3. Italy, the Pope, and Byzantium. The volte-face of the Papacy; 4. The New Empire; lll. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
  • 1. Economic and Social Organization2. Political Organization; 3. Intellectual Civilization; CONCLUSION; INDEX.