For the Belgian scientist in the physiology of vision, see Maurice Henri Léonard Pirenne.
Henri Pirenne
Portrait of Pirenne, c. 1910
Born
(1862-12-23)23 December 1862
Verviers, Belgium
Died
25 October 1935(1935-10-25) (aged 72)
Uccle, Belgium
Occupation(s)
Historian and political activist
Spouse
Jenny Vanderhaeghen
Children
Henri Pirenne (1888–1935), Jacques Pirenne (1891–1972), Pierre Pirenne (1895–1914), Robert Pirenne (1900–1931), Jacqueline Pirenne (Granddaughter, 1918–1990)[1]
Awards
Francqui Prize (1933)
Academic background
Alma mater
University of Liège
Academic work
Institutions
University of Ghent
Notable works
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade (1927) Mohammed and Charlemagne (1937)
Henri Pirenne (French:[piʁɛn]; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a prominent public intellectual. Pirenne made a lasting contribution to the study of cities that was a controversial interpretation of the end of Roman civilization and the rebirth of medieval urban culture.[2] He also became prominent in the nonviolent resistance to the Germans who occupied Belgium in World War I.
Henri Pirenne's reputation today rests on three contributions to European history: for what has become known as the Pirenne Thesis, concerning origins of the Middle Ages in reactive state formation and shifts in trade; for a distinctive view of Belgium's medieval history; and for his model of the development of the medieval city.
Pirenne argued that profound social, economic, cultural, and religious movements in the long term resulted from equally profound underlying causes, and this attitude influenced Marc Bloch and the outlook of the French Annales School of social history. Though Pirenne had his opponents, notably Alfons Dopsch[3] who disagreed on essential points, several recent historians of the Middle Ages have taken Pirenne's main theses, however much they are modified, as starting points.[4]
^Henri Pirenne at geneanet.org
^Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. pp. 514. ISBN 9780415252256.
^Dopsch, The Economic and Social Foundations of European Civilization (tr, 1937).
^Richard Hodges - Dark Age Economics. The origins of towns and trade, ad 600–1000 (1982) London
HenriPirenne (French: [piʁɛn]; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume...
ongoing process of transforming Roman institutions. HenriPirenne continued this idea with the "Pirenne Thesis", published in the 1920s, which remains influential...
Mahomet et Charlemagne) is an academic book by the Belgian historian HenriPirenne (1862–1935) which was first published posthumously in 1937. It set out...
the field from historians writing in the 1930s, including Marc Bloch, HenriPirenne, Wilhelm Abel, and Michael Postan. Referring to the crisis in Italy...
and Belgian History at the University of Liège. One of his students, HenriPirenne, became a noted historian. Léon-Ernest Halkin considered them the founders...
comparisons with the French Revolution. Some historians, following HenriPirenne, have seen it as a key moment in the formation of a Belgian nation-state...
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united by a common Christian faith. This is the view of French scholar HenriPirenne, who says that "Charles was the Emperor of the ecclesia as the Pope...
and the Renaissance (1963) online Pirenne, Henri. Belgian Democracy Its Early History (1915) online Pirenne, Henri. "The Formation and Constitution of...
657. He is often regarded as an early roi fainéant. Belgian historian HenriPirenne stated that Clovis "died insane." Clovis II was buried in Saint Denis...
pp. 36–42. Francesco Gabrieli, André Guillou, Bryce Lyon, Jacques HenriPirenne, Heiko Steuer: Mohammed und Karl der Große. Belser Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-7630-2097-7...
more relative sense of natural economy. Belgian economic historian HenriPirenne noted that medieval Europe has often been described as a natural economy...
1991, 164 Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed, Frank Puaux, "Huguenot" HenriPirenne (2001). Mahomet et Charlemagne (reprint of 1937 classic) (in French)...
the granddaughter of the Belgian historian HenriPirenne through her father Jacques Pirenne, Jacqueline Pirenne attended the Lycée Molière in Paris (16th...
McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history HenriPirenne (1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development Eileen Power (1889–1940)...
Literature. Columbia University Press. p. 273 of 331. ISBN 0-231-01767-7. HenriPirenne (1937). Mohammed and Charlemagne Archived 8 April 2015 at the Wayback...
of Tanchelm and no contradictory documents have emerged, professor HenriPirenne put question marks behind the accusations and formulated another thesis...
decade it was published it maintained a staunchly left-wing position. HenriPirenne, a Belgian historian who wrote comparative history, closely supported...
(born 1939), painter and writer Louis Pevernagie (1904–1970), painter HenriPirenne (1862–1935), historian Alizée Poulicek (born 1987), Miss Universe Belgium...
capitalism. She sketches how Adam Smith, Max Weber, Fernand Braudel, and HenriPirenne assumed that capitalism naturally arises from trade, commerce, and urbanisation...
"Burgundian State" was coined in the 19th century by the Belgian historian HenriPirenne in his Histoire de Belgique to describe what he saw as the precursor...
time of HenriPirenne (1862–1935), scholars have described a continuity of Roman culture and political legitimacy long after 476.: 5–7 Pirenne postponed...
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