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

By:

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

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	270.2 NIX (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018011

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.

English.

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