The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Nixey, Catherine
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Nixey, Catherine

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature,...
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Author: Catherine Nixey
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Nixey, Catherine

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

$40.75
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Nixey, Catherine

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

$40.75
Author: Catherine Nixey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations.

The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith."

Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation.

Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

Author: Catherine Nixey
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781328589286

About the Author
CATHERINE NIXEY studied classics at Cambridge and taught the subject for several years before becoming a journalist on the arts desk at the Times (UK), where she still works.

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