Presents the history of Europe in the Middle Ages. This book begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in the West, and ends in the middle of the sixteenth century with the Renaissance and the Reformation.
This posthumous work of the renowned scholar Henri Pirenne offered a new and decisive explanation of the evolution of Europe from the time of Constantine to that of Charlemagne.