The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
by Boswell, John
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- ISBN 10
- 0226067122
- ISBN 13
- 9780226067124
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xviii, 488 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean text. Light edgewear. "Using a wide variety of sources, John Boswell examines the evidence that parents of all classes gave up unwanted children, 'exposing' them in public places, donating them to the church, or delivering them in later centuries to foundling hospitals. He shows what happened to these children, and he illuminates the moral codes that condoned abandonment." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Author
- Boswell, John
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226067122
- ISBN 13
- 9780226067124
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / 3. Medieval / All;
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