Catherine Nixey is a British journalist and author, best known for her book The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World.

After teaching classics, Nixey began her journalism career at The Times, where she worked as a radio critic and on the arts desk.

[1] Nixey's book challenges the prevailing narrative that the Christianisation of the Roman Empire was a benign or progressive development.

[1] The book was praised for its investigative rigour and engaging narrative style, with some comparisons drawn to Edward Gibbon, an Enlightenment historian who also critiqued early Christianity’s role in fall of the Western Roman Empire.

She draws parallels between the destruction wrought by early Christians on temples, statues, and books and contemporary acts of religious extremism.