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John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children
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- ISBN
- 9780226067124
- EAN
- 9780226067124
- Book Title
- Kindness of Strangers : The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 0.8 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Children's Studies, Europe / Western, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 506 Pages
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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 unwanted children, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the church, or delivering them in later centuries to foundling hospitals. The Kindness of Strangers presents a startling history of the abandoned child that helps to illustrate the changing meaning of family.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226067122
ISBN-13
9780226067124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
389984
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Kindness of Strangers : The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Number of Pages
506 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Children's Studies, Europe / Western, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
Highly original, learned, and skillfully written. . . . A mine of fascinating and surprising information about every aspect of the history of family limitation in ancient, medieval, and Renaissance Europe., A formidably learned, ingenious, at times eloquent investigation. Professor Boswell is a young historian of rare force and originality., Bold, original and, very likely, controversial. . . . This is a pioneering work of large importance, the first to map out and explore a tangled, mysterious region of human experience.
Lccn
98-019356
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
362.7/3/094
Lc Classification Number
Hv887.E8b67 1998
Table of Content
Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. I: Ancient Patterns 1. Rome: The Historical Skeleton 2. Rome: Literary Flesh and Blood 3. Fathers of the Church and Parents of Children Pt. II: The Early Middle Ages 4. Variations on Familiar Patterns 5. A Christian Innovation: Oblation 6. Demographic Overview Pt. III: The High Middle Ages 7. New Demographics: 1000-1200 8. Oblation at Its Zenith 9. The Thirteenth Century: Abandonment Resumes 10. Literary Witnesses Pt. IV: The Later Middle Ages 11. Continuities and Unintended Tragedy 12. Conclusions Appendix of Translations Frequently Cited Works Index
Copyright Date
1998
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