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| | The Kindness of Strangers:
The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
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| | by John Boswell
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ZIN Product Number: 10603670
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 488 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226067122
Release Date: Jan 8, 1997
| |  | | | In Brief
This is a study of child abandonment in Europe from the Hellenistic period through the thirteenth century. The author argues that the practice was widespread during the period among all social classes but that most abandoned children survived. Some were adopted or accepted as oblates in monasteries. Others were sold into slavery or prostitution. According to Boswell, parents generally abandoned their children out of necessity. "At no point did European society as a whole entertain serious sanctions against the practice. . . . Christianity may well have increased the rate of abandonment, {he maintains}, both by insisting . . . on the absolute necessity of procreative purpose in allhuman sexual acts, and by providing, through churches and monasteries, regular and relatively humane modes of abandoning infants." (Author's conclusions)Bibliography. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
Using a wide variety of sources, John 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. He shows what happened to these children, and he illuminates the moral codes that condoned abandonment.
| | | | Annotation
A pioneering inquiry into an unexplored corner of the Western past - the widespread abandonment of children throughout the Middle Ages.
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| | | |  | | | | Abbreviations | | | 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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