“The state of affairs which was to last until the Carolingian period was determined by the establishment of the Germans in the Roman Empire.”

Henri Pirenne

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About Henri Pirenne

Historian Belgian

Henri Pirenne was a preeminent Belgian historian and a leading figure in the study of the Middle Ages. He is most famous for the "Pirenne Thesis," a groundbreaking argument concerning the end of classical antiquity....

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