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082	7	4	_a298.705 _223 _bN736
100	1		_aNixey, Catherine, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe darkening age : _bthe Christian destruction of the classical world / _cCatherine Nixey.
246	3	0	_aChristian destruction of the classical world
264		1	_aLondon : _bMacmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillian, _c2017.
300			_axxxix, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), facsimiles, 1 map ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-294) and index.
505	0		_aPrologiue: A beginning -- Introduction: An ending -- 1. The invisible army -- 2. The background of demons -- 3. Wisdom is foolishness -- 4. 'On the small number of martyrs' -- 5. These deranged men -- 6. The most magnificent building in the world -- 7. To despise the temples -- 8. How to destroy a demon -- 9. The reckless ones -- 10. To drink from the cup of devils -- 11. To cleanse the error of demons -- 12. Carpe diem -- 13. They that forsake the way of God -- 14. To obliterate the tyranny of joy -- 15. Merciful savagery -- 16. A time of tyranny and crisis.
520			_aDespite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyr's deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the 1st century to the 6th, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.
648		7	_aTo 1500 _2fast
650		0	_aChurch history _yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
655		4	_aHistory.
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast
776	0	8	_iEbook version : _z9781509816088
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