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Medieval cities : their origins and the revival of trade
Title:
Medieval cities : their origins and the revival of trade

Villes du Moyen Age. English.

Princeton classics.
Author:
Pirenne, Henri, 1862-1935, author.
ISBN:
9780691162393
Uniform Title:
Villes du Moyen Age. English.
Edition:
First Princeton Classics edition / with a new introduction by Michael McCormick.
Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 168 pages ; 22 cm.
Series:
Princeton classics.
General Note:
The English text was first published in 1925 by Princeton University Press and slightly revised for the 1952 issue. The original French text was first published, as "Les villes du Moyen Age" in 1927 in Brussels (see Translator's foreword)
Abstract:
Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. This book argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index.
Field 805:
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