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The Kindness of Strangers : The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
The Kindness of Strangers The Abandonment 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 up...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226067124
ISBN-10: 0226067122
Publication Date: 11/1/1998
Pages: 506
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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