The kindness of strangers [electronic resource] : the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance /

Boswell, John, 1947-1994.

The kindness of strangers the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance / [electronic resource] : Abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance John Boswell. - 1st Vintage books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 1990. - xviii, 488 p. ; 21 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1988. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/

Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-473) and index.

2027/heb01090 hdl

--History.--Europe, Western--History.--Europe, Western


Europe, Western--Social conditions.

Abandoned children Child welfare