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The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandoment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
The Kindness of Strangers The Abandoment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Author: John Boswell
In The Kindness of Strangers, John Boswell argues persuasively that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a wide variety of sources, including drama and mythological-literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell examines the evidence that parents of all classes gave ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679724995
ISBN-10: 0679724990
Publication Date: 2/19/1990
Pages: 488
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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