xxxv, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, map 21 cm
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Previously published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, c2017
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-303) and index
Today, we refer to Christianity's conquest of the West as a triumph. Nixey offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages. She shows how, in an orgy of destruction, Jesus's followers helped to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline