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The kindness of strangers : the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance
Title:
The kindness of strangers : the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance
Author:
Boswell, John.
Personal Author:
Boswell, John.
Publication Information:
New York : Pantheon Books, 1988.
Physical Description:
xviii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Subject Term:
Abandoned children -- Europe -- History.

Child welfare -- Europe -- History.

Social history -- To 500.

Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
ISBN:
9780394570051
Format :
Book

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