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Offers a study of how previous societies dealt with the phenomenon of abandoned children
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The author of the widely acclaimed Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (LJ 6/1/80) has now given us this original and fascinating work on abandoned children. It should be made available to every student of medieval and early modern Europe. And at a time when abortion, child abuse, and abandonment are much in the news, the book should have broad general interest. Abandonment of children--by leaving them, selling them, or consigning them to someone else--was practiced from Greek antiquity to early modern times by parents of all social classes, because of poverty, incest, shame, self-interest, inheritance, or to improve the child's future. Most children were rescued and survived due to "the kindness of strangers." Based on a careful exploration of ancient and medieval sources, this book will deservedly win a wide audience.
- Bennett D. Hill, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"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." (Bernard Knox New York Review of Books)
"A formidably learned, ingenious, at times eloquent investigation. Professor Boswell is a young historian of rare force and originality." (George Steiner New Yorker)
"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." (Mary Martin McLaughlin New York Times Book Review)
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0394572408
- ISBN 13 9780394572406
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages488
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