Mohammed and Charlemagne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pirenne, Henri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--392-814.

Europe.

Islamic Empire--History.

Islamic Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (461 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newburyport : Dover Publications, 2012.

Summary:

<DIV>Remarkable classic that developed the revolutionary theory of how the advance and influence of Islam caused the Europe of the Roman Empire to evolve into the Europe of the Middle Ages. ""An important...seminal book, worthy to close one of the most distinguished careers in European scholarship."" - <I>Saturday Review of Literature</I>.<BR></DIV>

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; NOTE; Part One - WESTERN EUROPE BEFORE ISLAM; CHAPTER ONE - THE CONTINUATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE WEST AFTER THE GERMANIC INVASIONS; I. "Romania" before the Germans; 2. The Invasions; 3. The Germans in "Romania"; 4. The Germanic States in the West; 5. Justinian (527-565); CHAPTER II - THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SITUATION AFTER THE INVASIONS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN NAVIGATION; i. Personal Property and the Soil; 2. Navigation in the East. Syrians and Jews; 3. Inland Commerce; 4. Money and the Monetary Circulation

CHAPTER III - INTELLECTUAL LIFE AFTER THE INVASIONS1. The Tradition of Antiquity; 2. The Church; 3. Art; 4. The Secular Character of Society; CONCLUSION; Part Two - ISLAM AND THE CAROLINGIANS; CHAPTER I - THE EXPANSION OF ISLAM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; I. The Islamic Invasion; 2. The Closing of the Western Mediterranean,; 3. Venice and Byzantium; CHAPTER II - THE CAROLINGIAN COUP D'ÉTAT AND THE VOLTE-FACE OF THE PAPACY; i. The Merovingian Decadence; 2. The Carolingian Mayors of the Palace; 3. Italy, the Pope and Byzantium. The Volte-face of the Papacy; 4. The New Empire

CHAPTER III - THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGESI. Economic and Social Organization; 2. Political Organization; 3. Intellectual Civilization; CONCLUSION; INDEX; A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF INTEREST

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ISBN:

9780486122250

0486122255

OCLC:

868278482