The Darkening Age

Resumen del libro

In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant.

And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Catherine Nixeyx{0026}lt;/B estudió Historia Clásica en Cambridge y se dedicó durante muchos años a la docencia, antes de inclinarse por el periodismo. Ha publicado sus reportajes en The Times, The Financial Times y The New York Times y en la actualidad es redactora de The Economist. Su primer libro, La edad de la penumbra (Taurus, 2018), ganó el Jerwood Award de la Royal Society of Literature y el Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize al mejor libro sobre humanidades del año 2018.x{0026}lt;/P