The Darkening Age
The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey
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- English
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The Darkening Age
The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey
Ă propos de ce livre
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.
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PROLOGUE: A BEGINNING
INTRODUCTION: AN ENDING
1. THE INVISIBLE ARMY
2. THE BATTLEGROUND OF DEMONS
Table des matiĂšres
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations
- Map
- Prologue: A Beginning
- Introduction: An Ending
- The Invisible Army
- The Battleground of Demons
- Wisdom Is Foolishness
- âOn the Small Number of Martyrsâ
- Photos I
- These Deranged Men
- The Most Magnificent Building in the World
- To Despise the Temples
- How to Destroy a Demon
- The Reckless Ones
- To Drink from the Cup of Devils
- To Cleanse the Error of Demons
- Carpe Diem
- They That Forsake the Way of God
- Photos II
- To Obliterate the Tyranny of Joy
- âMerciful Savageryâ
- âA Time of Tyranny and Crisisâ
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
- Footnotes