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Author Nixey, Catherine, author.

Title The darkening age [electronic resource] : the Christian destruction of the classical world / Catherine Nixey.

Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

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Edition First U.S. edition.
Descript. 1 online resource
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Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Map of the Roman Empire; Prologue: A Beginning; Introduction: An Ending; Chapter One: The Invisible Army; Chapter Two: The Battleground of Demons; Chapter Three: Wisdom Is Foolishness; Chapter Four: "On the Small Number of Martyrs"; Illustrations 1-8; Chapter Five: These Deranged Men; Chapter Six: The Most Magnificent Building in the World; Chapter Seven: To Despise the Temples; Chapter Eight: How to Destroy a Demon; Chapter Nine: The Reckless Ones
Chapter Ten: To Drink from the Cup of DevilsChapter Eleven: To Cleanse the Error of Demons; Chapter Twelve: Carpe Diem; Chapter Thirteen: They That Forsake the Way of God; Illustrations 9-16; Chapter Fourteen: To Obliterate the Tyranny of Joy; Chapter Fifteen: "Merciful Savagery"; Chapter Sixteen: "A Time of Tyranny and Crisis"; Back Matter; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine
Note (OCoLC)1013477335 (OCoLC)1035409577 (OCoLC)1049150293
0351D1D7-02BD-42DD-AC32-493F69181B7A OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
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Summary A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness.
Subject Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Rome -- Civilization -- Christian influences.
Greece -- Civilization -- Christian influences.
Electronic books.
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ISBN 9780544800939
0544800931