The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations.

The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings...