Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe - Brossura

Hodges, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0715617443 ISBN 13: 9780715617441

Casa editrice: Bristol Classical Press, 1998

Riassunto

Henri Pirennewas a Belgian historian whose career was devoted to promoting the thesis since named after him. His claim (in Mohammed and Charlemagne, 1939) was that the classical world survived the Germanic invasions of the fourth and fifth centuries, that the Islamic conquests destroyed the classical world by putting an end to Mediterranean trade upon which the classical world relied, and that the Carolingian Renaissance was due entirely to domestic resources. This thesis was disputed from the start, but mainly on the terms of literary evidence. In this concise, well argued book, Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse use data from archaeology to challenge all of these claims.

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L'autore:

Richard Hodges OBE, is President of The American University of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (as co-author) Villa to Village, all published by Bloomsbury. He has previously been Director of Archaeology for the Butrint Foundation and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA.

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• Editore: Bristol Classical Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0715617443
• ISBN 13: 9780715617441
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192