by Henri Pirenne · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420614014
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«Las ciudades de la Edad Media» is the historical essay by Henri Pirenne, published by Alianza in paperback (167 pages, in Spanish).
Pirenne argues that it was the Muslim expansion of the 8th century, by closing the Mediterranean to trade, that broke the economic unity inherited from Rome, not the Germanic invasions. After that decline, routes revived at the end of the 9th century and cities were reborn; the bourgeoisie began its rise against the clergy and nobility.
Original work: Les villes du Moyen Age (1925). Translation by Francisco Calvo. El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Humanities section, no. 401.
Reference work for History students and readers interested in the Middle Ages and the origin of European cities.
Henri Pirenne was a Belgian nationalist and 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. He also became prominent in the nonviolent resistance to the Germans who occupied Belgium in World War I.
