The Kindness of Strangers: the Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

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The Kindness of Strangers: the Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

Boswell, John - Personal Name;

This title of this book was inspired by the happy resolution of a problem of translation. A number of the Latin legal, ecclesiastical, and literary texts discussed below use the expression 'aliena misericordia' to describe the motivation of the person who rescued abandoned children.

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Series Title: -
Call Number: 362.7
Publisher: New York, USA : Pantheon Books., 1988
Collation: Hardcover.; 507 hlm.; 16 x 24 cm
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 0394572408
Classification: 362.7
Content Type: text
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Edition: 1
Subject(s): Nonfiction
History
General Nonfiction
Social Sciences
Social Problems and Social Services
Sociology
Child Welfare
History: Western Europe
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