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The Kindness of Strangers: the Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from…
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Boswell, John

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.

Edition
1
ISBN/ISSN
0394572408
Collation
Hardcover.; 507 hlm.; 16 x 24 cm
Series Title
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Call Number
362.7