The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

by Catherine Nixey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544800885
• ISBN13: 9780544800885
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The darkening Age is history that explains the present.

I laughed out loud many times, and the stories were very engaging, exciting and inspiring. History like it should be told!