Henri Pirenne
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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
Henri Pirenne (c.1890)
The Maison Vivroux in Verviers where Pirenne was born in 1862
Pirenne (centre) pictured during a visit to the White House in Washington DC in 1922
View of the city of Antwerp (c. 1540)
Mohammed and Charlemagne
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Mohammed and Charlemagne is an academic book by the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne which was first published posthumously in 1937. It set out an alternative argument about the end of Roman influence
7th-century gold dinar of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. By the time of its production, the minting of gold coins had effectively stopped north of the Alps.