Christendom Destroyed, Mark Greengrass
Christendom Destroyed, Mark Greengrass
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Christendom Destroyed
Europe 1517-1648

Author: Mark Greengrass

Narrator: James Cameron Stewart

Unabridged: 35 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/10/2019


Synopsis

From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the sixteenth century. Martin Luther's challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs in ways that shook the foundations of their religion. The subsequent divisions, fed by dynastic rivalries and military changes, fundamentally altered the relations between ruler and ruled. Geographical and scientific discoveries challenged the unity of Christendom as a belief community. Europe, with all its divisions, emerged instead as a geographical projection. Chronicling these dramatic changes, Thomas More, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Cervantes created works that continue to resonate with us.

Spanning the years 1517 to 1648, Christendom Destroyed is Mark Greengrass's magnum opus: a rich tapestry that fosters a deeper understanding of Europe's identity today.

About Mark Greengrass

Mark Greengrass is a professor emeritus of early modern history at the University of Sheffield. He is an award-winning historian, noted for his work on France and the Reformation. He lives and works in Paris, with affiliations at the University of Paris-IV (Centre Roland Mousnier).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Justin on January 11, 2015

Pity the historian who tries to write for people who are not professional historians, for all her options are bad: i) write in order to sell books to people who want their own prejudices confirmed. See: presidential biographies; new atheist pamphlets; moralistic narratives of war. ii) write *kind of*......more

Goodreads review by Ozymandias on August 08, 2023

Penguin’s History of Europe is a multivolume account of European history aimed at a general audience. I have read a lot of history books over the years, but it occurred to me that while I have read textbooks on world/western history as well as works on narrow topics in European history and some gene......more

Goodreads review by Yair on March 25, 2023

La quinta edición de este viaje por la historia de Europa de la serie “The Penguin History of Europe” de la editorial Penguin, nos lleva por los convulsos siglos XVI y XVII de la mano del historiador Mark Greengrass, profesor emérito de Historia Moderna de la Universidad de Sheffield y experto en la......more

Goodreads review by David on October 29, 2015

This volume organizes a very broad and complex topic, the history of a continent through 130 years, around a relatively simple concept: that at the beginning of the period, there was Christendom, and at the end, Europe. Unfortunately, I don't think the author does an adequate job of demonstrating th......more

Goodreads review by Bijou on February 15, 2015

I have to say immediately that this will be brief and from a layman's perspective, because my knowledge of history is limited to my sporadic consumption of dense history books such as this one. That being said, it is wonderfully written, concise and descriptive; it maintains an academic tone while s......more