by Henri Pirenne · Alianza Editorial : Club Internacional del Libro · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420692258
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«Las ciudades de la Edad Media» is the historical essay by Henri Pirenne, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (167 pages, in Spanish).
The Belgian historian studies how cities were reborn between Antiquity and the Middle Ages and rejects the image of a purely agrarian medieval world. For Pirenne, trade driven by merchants creates new urban centers, where economic, social and cultural changes take shape that transform feudal society and herald modernity.
Colección Biblioteca Fundamental de Nuestro Tiempo, no. 25. Translation by Francisco Calvo. Original: «Les villes du Moyen Âge» (1925).
Recommended for history students and readers interested in the Middle Ages, economic history and European urbanism.
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.
