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    Henri Pirenne (French: [piʁɛn]; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume...
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    Mahomet et Charlemagne) is an academic book by the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) which was first published posthumously in 1937. It set out...
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    ongoing process of transforming Roman institutions. Henri Pirenne continued this idea with the "Pirenne Thesis", published in the 1920s, which remains influential...
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  • Maurice Henri Léonard Pirenne (30 May 1912, Verviers–11 October 1978, Oxford) was a Belgian scientist known for his work in vision physiology. Pirenne was...
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    Maurice Pirenne (1878, Verviers–November 25, 1968, Verviers) was a Belgian painter. Maurice Lucien Henri Joseph Marie Pirenne was the son of Virginie...
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    Belgium') is a seven-volume survey of the Belgian history by the historian Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) written in French and published between 1900 and 1932. The...
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    Brabandere [nl] 1912–1915: Henri Schoentjes 1916–1918: Pierre Hoffmann 1918–1919: Henri Schoentjes 1919–1921: Henri Pirenne 1921–1923: Eugène Eeman 1923–1924:...
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    and Belgian History at the University of Liège. One of his students, Henri Pirenne, became a noted historian. Léon-Ernest Halkin considered them the founders...
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    empire would be united by a common Christian faith. This is the view of Henri Pirenne, who says that "Charles was the Emperor of the ecclesia as the Pope...
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    comparisons with the French Revolution. Some historians, following Henri Pirenne, have seen it as a key moment in the formation of a Belgian nation-state...
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