The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

The Darkening Age tells the unknown story of how between the 2nd and the 6th centuries AD the Christians of the late Roman Empire set out deliberately to destroy all the books, knowledge and temples of the ancient Roman and Greek worlds, killing pagan priests, burning libraries and erasing the wisdom of ages.

It’s generally known that all the great works of Roman literature that survived and prompted the Renaissance had to be translated back into Euro... >Voir plus