checking out the library book / Love - massively OT, mostly

[pippin_999]

> Kneasy:

> Try reading my posts again. 
> Even better - read the book.

Pippin:
Thanks for the recommendation.  Perhaps you might like to read
"England's  Jewish Solution", Robin R. Mundill, Cambridge University 
Press,2002.  While Mundill agrees with your source about the 
traditional xenophobia of the islanders,  the fact remains that below 
the court level Norman-French speakers who were Catholic were
assimilated, while Norman-French speakers who were Jewish were 
not. 

It is a bit sad to have to use religious persecution as evidence of
of religious belief, but we do the same to establish 
belief in witchcraft, do we not? 


Pippin