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The meaning of religious intolerance,
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This review is from: Christendom and its Discontents: Exclusion, Persecution, and Rebellion, 1000-1500 (Hardcover)
Gavin Langmuir's essay in CHRISTENDOM AND ITS DISCONTENTS portrays the evolution of the myth of the tortures of the body of Christ as revealing increasing tension in Medieval Europe between Christians and Jews--a tension that led eventually to the expulsion of Jews from most of Europe. The myth begins as advocacy for Jewish conversion to Christianity, but becomes over time, advocacy for the persecution of Jews. The refusal of the Jewish people to convert and the refusal of Christians to accept Jewish recalcitrance is at the core of European antisemitism. To read Langmuir and others in CHRISTENDOM AND ITS DISCONTENTS is to understand the genesis of a series of pogroms that culminated in the Nazi holocaust.
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Christendom and its Discontents: Exclusion, Persecution, and Rebellion, 1000-1500 by Scott L. Waugh (Hardcover - March 29, 1996)
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