Henri Pirenne

Belgian historian (1862–1935)

Henri Pirenne (French: [piʁɛn]; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) 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.

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