亨利·皮朗是20世纪上半叶重要的历史学家,其中世纪经济社会史、城市史学说对于20世纪至今的城市史学术研究具有非常重要的意义,也成为我们认识欧洲中世纪城市的重要途径。但是,在皮朗奠定的基础之上,西方的城市史研究此后又经历了较大程度的发展,围绕着“皮朗命题”产生了持续不断的争论,新观点、新视角、新方法层出不穷,这些都构成了20世纪历史学的一道风景。皮朗的学说及其之后的学术史发展都是与时代背景和学术潮流紧密结合在一起的,这对于我们从整体上认识西方城市史研究的历程有重要意义。本文试图从中世纪城市的诞生、属性、空间维度、区域层次四个方面,探讨欧洲中世纪城市史研究在20世纪中后期西方学术界的发展脉络。 Henry Pilang is an important historian in the first half of the 20th century. Its history of social and economic history and urban history are of great significance to the academic study of urban history from the 20th century to the present and have also become an important way for us to know the medieval city in Europe. . However, based on the foundation of Pilan, the study of urban history in the West has undergone a great degree of development since then, resulting in continuous controversy, new ideas, new perspectives and new methods around “Piran Proposition” An endless stream, these constitute a 20th century history of a landscape. The theory of Pilar and its subsequent development of academic history are closely integrated with the background of the times and the academic trend, which is of great significance for us to understand the history of western urban history as a whole. This paper attempts to explore the development context of western medieval city history in the middle and late 20th century in four aspects: the birth, the attribute, the space dimension and the regional level of the medieval city.