The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

New
Illustrated
1998
$36.11

This study argues that child abandonment was common among all classes and morally acceptable from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a variety of sources, Boswell examines the evidence, presenting a history of the abandoned child and illustrating the changing meaning of family.

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This study argues that child abandonment was common among all classes and morally acceptable from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a variety of sources, Boswell examines the evidence, presenting a history of the abandoned child and illustrating the changing meaning of family.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 522
Edition: New
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01 Nov 1998
ISBN 10: 0226067122
ISBN 13: 9780226067124