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Title: An understanding of one form of the Evil
Review: In this work Langmuir takes the eleventh and twelvth centuries as the key period in the transformation from what he calls Anti- Jewishness to Anti- Semitism. Anti- Jewishness as he understands it has to do with Christianity's conflict with Judaism on matters of faith and practice. Anti- Semitism he insteads see as irrational, and fueled by imaginative constructions and fantasies. The latter as he understands is a reflection of Christian uncertainty in itself at this time.Langmuir has a wide knowledge of sociology, and anthropology and his writing focuses on understanding collective and social phenomenom.This work may not be the comprehensive history of Anti- Semitism which would explain it in all its various historical manifestations. But it is an informed scholarly work for all those who wish to understand the medieval Christian variant of this form of human evil.
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