The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the Classical world
Nixey, Catherine2017
Books, Manuscripts
'The Darkening Age' is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and deliberately extinguished 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 martyr's 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.
Main title:
The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the Classical world / Catherine Nixey.
Author:
Nixey, Catherine, author
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2017.
Collation:
xxxix, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781509812325 (hbk)
Dewey class:
270.1270.1 NIX
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2558074