Medieval Cities : : Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition / / Henri Pirenne.

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• VerfasserIn: Pirenne, Henri,
• TeilnehmendeR: McCormick, Michael.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Updated edition with a New Introduction
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Classics ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Me...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Translator'S Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter I. The Mediterranean
• Chapter II. The Ninth Century
• Chapter III. City Origins
• Chapter IV. The Revival of Commerce
• Chapter V. The Merchant Class
• Chapter VI. The Middle Class
• Chapter VII. Municipal Institutions
• Chapter VIII. Cities and European Civilization
• Bibliography
• Index