Christendom Destroyed
Europe 1517-1648

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

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

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

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

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