Before the War, in his lectures on the History of the Middle Ages, he drew attention to the profound traces which the institutions of the late Roman Empire had left upon those of the Frankish epoch. The problem of the end of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages had always preoccupied him. “This was the crowning achievement of his last years of work. Rather than focusing on the invading hordes of Germanic barbarians to whom the Fall of Rome is generally attributed, Pirenne’s proposed a map of history where the shape of European society from the Roman Empire to the Dark Ages and the eventually the Carolingians is determined by the Muslim conquest of North Africa. Focusing on the period of European History between the fifth and ninth centuries, Pirenne took up the daunting task of writing in opposition to the prevailing view on the end of the Roman Empire.
Mohammed and Charlemagne, a historical treatise, was written by Belgian medievalist and public intellectual Henri Pirenne (1862-1935).
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