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The Kindness of Strangers
John Boswell
其他書名
The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
出版University of Chicago Press, 1998-11
主題History / GeneralHistory / Europe / WesternHistory / Social HistoryPolitical Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfareSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Children's Studies
ISBN02260671229780226067124
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1n8AvQtdYzwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In The Kindness of Strangers, John Boswell argues persuasively that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a wide variety of sources, including drama and mythological-literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell examines the evidence that parents of all classes gave up unwanted children, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the church, or delivering them in later centuries to foundling hospitals. The Kindness of Strangers presents a startling history of the abandoned child that helps to illustrate the changing meaning of family.