![]() ![]() Born in 1862, the late Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian at Ghent University whose renown grew out of his lucid and provocative writing on European history, focused on the Middle Ages. Originally published in 1925, the book is a rightfully a part of the Princeton Classics series that offers readers access to “the most important and influential books ever published by Princeton University Press”. And it was with this motivation that I decided to read the most recent release of Henri Pirenne’s seminal work Medieval Cities: Their Origins and The Revival of Trade (Updated Edition). ![]() The late fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett once stated: “If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going.” This is certainly true of cities as one can only truly understand the nature of the urban landscape within its larger historical context. Author: Henri Pirenne (Princeton University Press, 2014) ![]()
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