Title The kindness of strangers : the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance / John Boswell

Edition First Vintage Books edition Published New York : Vintage Books, 1990 ©1988

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Description xviii, 488 pages ; 21 cm Analysis Abandoned children - Europe - History Child welfare - Europe - History Europe - Social conditions - To 1492 Notes "Originally published in hardcover by Pantheon Books ... in 1988"--T.p. verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [463]-473) Subject Abandoned children -- Europe -- History. Child welfare -- Europe -- History. SUBJECT Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045754 LC no. 89040117 ISBN 0679724990

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