Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe
Hodges, Richard / Whitehouse, David![Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/231/23132811/CHSBZCOP0323132811.jpg)
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 do...