The Shortest History of Europe
by John Hirst · John Hirst
Short survey arguing that European civilisation formed from Greek learning, Roman law, and Christianity, then repeatedly recombined those elements. It gives you a compact framework for placing feudalism, the Renaissance, and the modern nation-state in sequence.
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