The most famous exposition appears in his book Mohammed and Charlemagne (The Birth of the Occident, The Fall of the Antiquity, and the Rise of the Germanic Middle Ages) first published in 1937 (1939 in English). He subsequently published it in a series of papers from 1922 to 1923 and spent the rest of his life refining the thesis with supporting evidence. Henri Pirenne first developed the idea for the Pirenne Thesis in POW camp during World War I.
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