Kindness of Strangers
The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
In this work, John Boswell argues that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a variety of sources, including drama and mythological-literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell examines evidence that parents of all classes gave up unwanted chldren, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the church, or, in later centuries, delivering them to foundling hospitals. Les mer
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In this work, John Boswell argues that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a variety of sources, including drama and mythological-literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell examines evidence that parents of all classes gave up unwanted chldren, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the church, or, in later centuries, delivering them to foundling hospitals. This work presents a history of the abandoned child that helps to illustrate the changing meaning of family.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Chicago Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 506
- ISBN
- 9780226067124
- Utgivelsesår
- 1998
- Format
- 2 x 1 cm
Om forfatteren
John Boswell's "Chritsianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality" won the 1981 American Book Award for History.John Boswell (1947-94) was the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Royal Treasure, The Kindness of Strangers, and Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe.
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