An excellent draft. It would be valuable in Wikipedia if some or all of it could be incorporated there. From my point of view, the draft would be strengthened if its present content could be rearranged to present less a set of facts followed by an interpretation based on other facts, than an interpretive context applied to the facts established by earlier secondary sources. What Ginzburg shows about France in the time of Edward I, and about Edward's own responses to those events in his treatment both of the lepers and the Jews is valuable precisely because it helps us to understand the mingled features of protection and predation merged in the institution being described.