The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
by:
John Boswell (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394570051 (0394570057)
Publish date: January 20th 1989
Publisher: Random House Trade
Pages no: 488
Edition language: English
Using old records and tales, Boswell traces one of the main fates of unwanted children: abandonment. From antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages, European parents of every social standing, in every circumstance (from rape to incest to adultery to married couples), abandoned or sold their chil...
John Boswell writes "From Roman times to the late Middle Ages, children were abandoned throughout Europe...in great numbers, by parents of every social standing, in a great variety of circumstances." If this passage evokes images of suffering, despair and death, Boswell postulates that from the stan...
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