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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1937 edition. Excerpt: ... P. Lehugeur, Histoire de Philippe le
Long, p. 368 (Paris. alive deter counterfeiters from the temptation
of exploiting, a state of affairs so favourable to them. From the
end of the twelfth century the disorder of th& currency had
reached such a point that a reform became absolutely necessary. It
is significant that the initiative came from the greatest
commercial centre of the age, Venice. In 1192 the doge, Henry
Dandolo, caused an entirely new land of coin to be struck there,
the groat, or gros or matapan, weighing a little over 2 grammes of
silver and of the value of 12 of the old deniers. This groat was
thus equivalent to the Carolingian sou, with the difference that
the sou, originally a money of account, now became a real coin.
Charlemagne's system was not abandoned and the innovation
maintained his scale of coinage. All it did was to take advantage
of the continual fall of the denier, to substitute for it a new
denier, of twelve times the value (whence its name of grossus),
which in fact corresponded exactly to the old sou, which from a
mere figure now became an integral part of the currency. In other
words, the new system remained faithful to the old, except that it
gave it a metallic value which was twelve times higher. The old
denier was not suppressed; the groat took its place beside it as
the money of commerce, reducing the denier in practice to the rank
of small change. The Venetian groat answered the needs of the
merchants so well that it was immediately imitated in all the towns
of Lombardy and Tuscany. But north of the Alps, too, attempts were
made to remedy the debasement of the coinage, which was by now
intolerable. In Germany, where it seems to have been worst of all,
the Heller (so called from the town of Halle in Swabia...
This posthumous work of the renowned scholar Henri Pirenne
(originally published in 1939) offered a new and decisive
explanation of the evolution of Europe from the time of Constantine
to that of Charlemagne. His revolutionary ideas overthrew many of
the most cherished conceptions concerning the Middle Ages: namely
that "the Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean
unity of the ancient world, nor the essential features of Roman
culture" and that "the cause of the break with the tradition of
antiquity was the advance of Islam..."
First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in
1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the
economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the
Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century.
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
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available for future generations to enjoy.
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available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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First published in 1939, this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne's
extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the middle
ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the
fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in the
West, and ends in the middle of the sixteenth century with the
Renaissance and the Reformation. Universally praised for its
detailed and impartial approach, this reissue will be very welcome
news to both students of medieval history and to the general reader
seeking a definitive review of the period.
First published in 1939, this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne's
extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the Middle
Ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the
fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in the
West, and ends in the middle of the sixteenth century with the
Renaissance and the Reformation. Universally praised for its
detailed and impartial approach, this reissue will be very welcome
news to both students of medieval history and to the general reader
seeking a definitive review of the period.
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 Mediterranean trade by Arab
conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of
long-distance commerce accelerated the decline of the ancient
cities of Europe. Pirenne challenges conventional wisdom by
attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of trade,
tracing their growth from the tenth century to the twelfth. He also
describes the important role the middle class played in the
development of the modern economic system and modern culture.
Featuring a new introduction by Michael McCormick, this
Princeton Classics edition of "Medieval Cities" is essential
reading for all students of medieval European history.
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