The kindness of strangers
Subtitle: the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance
By: John Boswell.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1990
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: Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-473).
"Originally published in hardcover by Pantheon Books ... in 1988"--T.p. verso.