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

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  • The Kindness of Strangers - the Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
  • Written by author John Boswell
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, 1998/11/02
  • 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 text
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Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction 3
Pt. I Ancient Patterns 51
1 Rome: The Historical Skeleton 53
2 Rome: Literary Flesh and Blood 95
3 Fathers of the Church and Parents of Children 138
Pt. II The Early Middle Ages 181
4 Variations on Familiar Patterns 183
5 A Christian Innovation: Oblation 228
6 Demographic Overview 256
Pt. III The High Middle Ages 267
7 New Demographics: 1000-1200 269
8 Oblation at Its Zenith 296
9 The Thirteenth Century: Abandonment Resumes 322
10 Literary Witnesses 364
Pt. IV The Later Middle Ages 395
11 Continuities and Unintended Tragedy 397
12 Conclusions 428
Appendix of Translations 435
Frequently Cited Works 463
Index 475


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