Author: Maitland, F.W
Title: The Deacon and the Jewess [with] Prefatory Note by Israel Abrahams, M.A. [who describes Maitland's essay as "original in substance . . . [f]or the first time it gave a clear insight into . . . the laws of heresy in Mediaeval England"]
Description: London Jewish Historical Society of England 1908-10. Disbound, extracted from volume 6 of the Society's Transactions, 6+17 pages, a clean usable copy. ¶ Maitland's careful, seminal analysis establishing with certainty that burning to death for heresy began in England in 1222, when a deacon left the church, committed apostasy, was circumcised, and converted to Judaism, all for his love of a Jewess

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