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Massie, Allan

The Evening of the World: A Romance of the Dark Ages

Phoenix, 2002

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Year of publication
2002
ISBN
0753813106
Place of printing
London
Author
Massie, Allan
Publishers
Phoenix
Keyword
HISTTORIAL FICTION DARK AGES LATE ANTIQUITY
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

"A Romance of the Dark Ages, being the first volume of the troligy The Matter of Eternal Rome which is also the Matter of Europe" " .set in the period of the barbarian invasions. Its hero is a young Roman nobleman named Marcus. He undergoes extraordinary experiences as he searches for meaning and stability in a twilight world where the old gods are dead or dying, but their mysteries still attract, and the new religion is threatened by new barbarisms. Marcus's journeys take him over the empire, from Italy to Greece and Byzantium, to the camp of Alaric the Goth and the wastes of the northern forests, from a Christian monastery to the horde of Attila the Hun. His is a world where everything is possible and nothing solid, a world that is full of danger and mystery, of love and terror, of simple faith and abstruse philosophy, of cruelty, strange perversions, treachery and undaunted courage.