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.
Dark Ages (historiography)
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The Dark Ages is a term, now deprecated by most historians, for the Early Middle Ages, or occasionally the entire Middle Ages, in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which chara
Mohammed and Charlemagne
…which was first published posthumously in 1937. It set out an alternative argument about the end of Roman influence in Europe and the emergence of the Dark Ages which emphasised the importance of the Arab expansion in the Middle East and Levant which has become known as the Pirenne Thesis. Although successive…
Petrarch (1304–1374), who conceived the idea of a European "Dark Age". From Cycle of Famous Men and Women, Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla, c. 1450
Triumph of Christianity by Tommaso Laureti (1530–1602), ceiling painting in the Sala di Constantino, Vatican Palace. Images like this one celebrate the triumph of Christianity over the paganism of Antiquity.
Medieval artistic illustration of the spherical Earth in a 14th-century copy of L'Image du monde (c. 1246)