The kindness of strangers
Subtitle: the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance
By: John Boswell.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Abandoned children -- Europe -- History.; Child welfare -- Europe -- History.; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [463]-473.
Includes index.