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The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the classical world / Catherine Nixey

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Nixey, Catherine

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2018Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 315 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780544800885

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DDC classification:

270.2 NIX

LOC classification:

BR162.3 .N59 2018

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Summary: Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	270.2 NIX (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018011

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: A beginning -- Introduction: An ending -- The invisible army -- The battleground of demons -- Wisdom is foolishness -- "On the small number of martyrs" -- 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 -- To obliterate the tyranny of joy -- "Merciful savagery" -- "A time of tyranny and crisis"

Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages.

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