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

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

John Boswell, John Boswell

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A pioneering inquiry into an unexplored corner of Western the widespread abandonment of children throughout classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. "A learned and lively book, which is...likely to prove controversial..."-- Boston Globe .

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