This thinker rejected Maurice Prou's contention that gold accumulated into kings' treasuries in the fifth and sixth centuries, instead arguing that commerce was providing the massive and constant supply of gold in the West.
This thinker rejected Maurice Prou's contention that gold accumulated into kings' treasuries in the fifth and sixth centuries, instead arguing that commerce was providing the massive and constant supply of gold in the West. This historian identified the Norman invasions as the end of a period of economic prosperity in Great Britain that the island shared only with the Venetians. As a German prisoner during World War I, he wrote History of Europe, focusing on economic and social changes until the mid-1500s. This historian presented the rise of the middle class as a primary driver of urbanization in (*) Medieval Cities, in which he also argued that disruption of trade in the Mediterranean led to the Dark Ages. This medievalist's most famous argument states that the rise of Islam, and not German barbaric invasions, produced Western Europe's break with antiquity. For 10 points, name this Belgian historian whose book Mohammed and Charlemagne sets forth his eponymous thesis.
This thinker rejected Maurice Prou's contention that gold accumulated into kings' treasuries in the fifth and sixth centuries, instead arguing that commerce was providing the massive and constant supply of gold in the West.
Henri  Pirenne