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A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 “Searingly passionate…Nixey writes up a storm. Each sentence is rich, textured, evocative, felt…[A] ballista-bolt of a book.” —New York Times Book Review In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long before, their fellow Christians had invaded the city’s greatest temple and razed it—smashing its world-famous statues and destroying all that was left of Alexandria’s Great Library. Today, we refer to Christianity’s conquest of the West as a “triumph.” But this victory entailed an orgy of destruction in which Jesus’s followers attacked and suppressed classical culture, helping to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline. Just one percent of Latin literature would survive the purge; countless antiquities, artworks, and ancient traditions were lost forever. As Catherine Nixey reveals, evidence of early Christians’ campaign of terror has been hiding in plain sight: in the palimpsests and shattered statues proudly displayed in churches and museums the world over. In The Darkening Age, Nixey resurrects this lost history, offering a wrenching account of the rise of Christianity and its terrible cost.
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the ~ In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.. The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed.
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the ~ 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 martyr's deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey .
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the ~ 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 martyr's deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Cat
The Darkening Age - Wikipedia ~ The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World is a 2018 book by Catherine Nixey. In the book, Nixey argues that early Christians deliberately destroyed classical Greek and Roman cultures and caused the Dark Ages. Despite popular success, the book received extensive criticism from professional scholars of late antiquity and the .
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the ~ The Darkening Age rattles along at a tremendous pace, and Nixey brilliantly evokes all that was lost with the waning of the classical world.” —Peter Thonemann, Sunday Times (UK) “Nixey has done an impressive job of illuminating an important aspect of late-antique Christianity.” —Levi Roach, Literary Review
How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World - The New York ~ THE DARKENING AGE The Christian Destruction of the Classical World By Catherine Nixey Illustrated. 315 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $28. Vandalizing the Parthenon temple in Athens has been a .
The Darkening Age von Catherine Nixey - Taschenbuch - 978 ~ Its fanatical adherents set about the destruction of the old gods, demolishing temples, smashing altars, hacking statues to pieces and burning books. Taking readers to the great cities of the ancient world and with a remarkable cast of scholars, zealots, martyrs and demons, The Darkening Age is a wrenching and utterly gripping account of centuries of obliteration.