The kindness of strangers
Subtitle: the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance
By: John Boswell.
Edition: University of Chicago Press ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
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) and index.
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1988.