Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Pullan, Brian S., author

Title Tolerance, regulation and rescue : dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300-1800 / Brian Pullan
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016
©2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; 1 Women of lost honour: honour and dishonour; Prostitutes and harlots; Common prostitutes: the vocabulary; Free women; Lovers and concubines; Rural prostitution; Courtesans; Numbers; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Prostitution, sin and the law; 'The lesser evil'; 'Fortresses of lust'; Encounters with magistrates; Sodomy: a greater evil?; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Prostitutes, courtesans and public morality; The restraint of the courtesan
'A detestable vice which creeps like a cancer'Prostitution and the French evil; Prostitution: a defence against adultery?; 'An occupation which has always had to be tolerated'; Dues and taxes; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Extenuation and rescue; Children in danger; The unfit mother; Fathers and husbands; 'The prowling lion'; False lovers and rapists; Poverty, prostitution and female employment; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Penitent sinners; Penitent saints; Redemptive marriages; Magdalen convents; Missionary methods; The regime; Entrants and financial problems; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Women and girls in danger
Halfway housesMalmaritate; The rescue of innocents; Compromise and refinement; Regime and curriculum; Leaving the Conservatory; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Foundlings and orphans: an introduction; Foundling hospitals as a lesser evil; The vocabulary: foundlings and orphans; The spread of foundling homes; Organisation and revenue; Eighteenth-century reforms; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Natural and spurious infants: abandonment and other choices; Types of illegitimacy; To keep or to abandon; Child murders and secret births; Maternity homes and hospitals; Abandonment and infanticide: two stories
Children of wedlockConclusion; Notes; 9 Abandonment, reception and infant mortality; Arrival; Great numbers and arduous journeys; Baptisms and tokens; The ordeal of the nursery; Infant mortality; Conclusion; Notes; 10 Fostering and adoption; Nurses in town and country; Inspection and fraud; Restoration and adoption; Conclusion; Notes; 11 Foundlings and society; 'Scholars or artificers'; Domestic service; Female conservatories; Music and austerity; Marriage and spinsterhood; Oppression and protest; Innocents and outcasts; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of 'unrespectable' women and children living on the margins of mainstream Italian society, considering the interrelated aspects of Italian social history, Catholic charity and social policy over a period of five centuries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Prostitutes -- Italy -- History
Abandoned children -- Italy -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Abandoned children
Prostitutes
Social conditions
SUBJECT Italy -- Social conditions -- History
Subject Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526100207
1526100207
9781526100214
1526100215
1526115034
9781526115034