The kindness of strangers
Subtitle: the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance
By: John Boswell.
Publisher: Allen Lane The Penguin Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Abandoned children -- Europe -- History; Child welfare -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492
Notes: Originally published: New York : Pantheon, 1988.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 463-473.