Open AccessHENRI PIRENNE – Considerações sobre sua obra historiográfica
Author(s) -
José D’Assunção Barros
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
antíteses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1984-3356
DOI - 10.5433/1984-3356.2013v6n12p318
Subject(s) - historiography , temporality , middle ages , period (music) , field (mathematics) , history , philosophy , epistemology , ancient history , archaeology , aesthetics , mathematics , pure mathematics
This article analyze and discuss the main contributions of the belgian historian Henry Pirenne for both Historiography - here considered the broader field of Theory and Methodology of History - as to the medievalist historiography of his time, considering that this temporality was the main field of studies covered by the interest of Pirenne. Besides the original Pirenne’a thesis on the formation and decline of the Middle Ages, the development of cities in this period and intensification of long-distance trade, it is examined the great debate that was established in the following decades about some of the proposals of Pirenne to understand the medieval period