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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | Henri Pirenne (23 December 1862 - 25 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero. He also became prominent in the nonviolent resistance to the Germans who occupied Belgium in World War I. Henri Pirenne's reputation today rests on three contributions to European history: for what has become known as the Pirenne Thesis, concerning origins of the Middle Ages in reactive state formation and shifts in trade; for a distinctive view of Belgium's medieval history; and for his model of the development of the medieval city. Pirenne argued that profound social, economic, cultural, and religious movements in the long-term resulted from equally profound underlying causes, and this attitude influenced Marc Bloch and the outlook of the French Annales School of social history. Though Pirenne had his opponents, notably Alfons Dopsch who disagreed on essential points, recent historians of the Middle Ages usually take Pirenne's main theses, however much they are modified, as starting points. |
| Face value | 3 Francs |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 1300 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number BE 587 Yvert et Tellier BE 1240 Stanley Gibbons BE 1841 AFA number BE 1320 Belgium BE 1240 Unificato BE 1240 |
| Stamp colour | violet blue |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 8.250.000 |
| Issue date | 15/01/1963 |
| Designer | J. Malvaux / Paul Verheyden |
| Print technique | recess |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 39.00 mm |
| Width | 28.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
