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The Darkening Age

The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

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The Darkening Age

Von: Catherine Nixey
Gesprochen von: Lalla Ward
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'Bold, dazzling and provocative' – Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

'This book uncovers what was lost when Christianity won' – The Times

In The Darkening Age, historian 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. It was an annihilation.

'A searingly passionate book' - Bettany Hughes, author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the Observer, and BBC History Magazine

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Nonfiction

 Antike Christentum Europa Italien Religiöse Studien

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This book uncovers what was lost when Christianity won . . . a delightful book about destruction and despair.
Catherine Nixey has written a bold, dazzling and provocative book that challenges ideas about early Christianity and both how – and why – it spread so far and fast in its early days. Nixey is a witty and iconoclastic guide to a world that will be unfamiliar, surprising and troubling to many. (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Road)
A searingly passionate book . . . Nixey writes up a storm. Each sentence is rich, textured, evocative, felt . . . Nixey delivers this ballista-bolt of a book with her eyes wide open and in an attempt to bring light as well as heat to the sad story of intellectual monoculture and religious intolerance (Bettany Hughes)
Superb (Richard Dawkins)
With passion, wit and thunderous eloquence, Nixey throws everything she has against the bishops, monks and Christian emperors of late antiquity . . . The Darkening Age rattles along at a tremendous pace, and Nixey brilliantly evokes all that was lost with the waning of the classical world.
A book for the 21st century . . . Nixey has a great story to tell, and she tells it exceptionally well. As one would expect from a distinguished journalist, every page is full of well-turned phrases that leap from the page . . . finely crafted, invigorating . . . [The Darkening Age] succeeds brilliantly. (Tim Whitmarsh)
Nixey is a funny, lively, readable guide through this dark world of religious oppression. (Emily Wilson)
Clever, compelling . . . Readers raised in the milky Anglican tradition will be surprised to learn of the savagery of the early saints and their sledgehammer-swinging followers . . . exceptionally well written. (Thomas W. Hodgkinson)
Nixey has done an impressive job of illuminating an important aspect of late-antique Christianity. (Levi Roach)
Engaging and erudite, Catherine Nixey's book offers both a compelling argument and a wonderful eye for vivid detail. It shines a searching spotlight on to some of the murkiest aspects of the early medieval mindset. A triumph. (Edith Hall, author of The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World)
Nixey's elegant and ferocious text paints a dark but riveting picture of life at the time of the 'triumph' of Christianity, reminding us not just of the realities of our own past, but also of the sad echoes of that past in our present. (Dr Michael Scott)
Captivating and compulsive, Catherine Nixey's debut challenges our whole understanding of Christianity's earliest years and the medieval society that followed. A remarkable fusion of captivating narrative and acute scholarly judgment, this book marks the debut of a formidable classicist and historian. (Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets)
A devastating book, written in vivid, yet playful prose. Catherine Nixey reveals a level of intolerance and anti-intellectualism which which echoes today's headlines but is centuries old. (Anita Anand)
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toled in a captivating was, we See the classical world with the eyes of philosophers

new Perspective on history

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Such essential work - this otherwise hidden history of the truth behind rise of the abrahamic faith should be standard learning material.

Essential History

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A really excellent book, and also excellent as an audio book. I think this is a must-read for everyone interested in late antiquity and how the rise of christianity really impacted the Roman Empire, because this is a topic that is being White washed by many historians, who are afraid to offend devout Christians. Nixey's work is extremely important in an era of growing intolerance, where free speech is under attack by fanatic idologies, quite similar to what happened back then. Thus, the importance of Nixey's book cannot be overstated.

An excellent book

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Konterpositioin zu den Geschichten die einem die Pfarrer in der Kindheit erzählt haben und Fragen aufgeworfen haben und natürlich! Nicht von diesen beantwortet werden konnte.
Mit Unterhaltungswert & wild Umstritten:

From the not editable guardian:

"An exceptional account of murder and vandalism wrought by religious zealotry – and one that suggests modern parallels"

Tim Whitmarsh


From the editable wikipedia:

Averil Cameron, professor emerita of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford, points out that Nixey is promoting some outdated teachings and finds Nixey's book without nuance and counter-arguments, and states that Nixey's readers would never know that there are academic works that contradict her narrative if they only get their information from her. On Twitter Cameron called Nixey's book ”a travesty”.

Sehr einseitig geschriebene Darstellung

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Content and speaker of this audiobook are both excellent 👌 Looking forward to hearing or reading Mrs Nixey's second book.

A great book about a despicable chapter of history

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