Tolerance, regulation and rescue Dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300–1800 / Brian Pullan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pullan, Brian S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Prostitutes.

Abandoned children.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Place of Publication:

Manchester, Michigan : Manchester University Press, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This work provides a wide-ranging analysis of 'unrespectable' women and children living on the margins of mainstream Italian society, considering the interrelated aspects of Italian social history, Catholic charity and social policy over a period of five centuries.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Women of lost honour

2 Prostitution, sin and the law

3 Prostitutes, courtesans and public morality

4 Extenuation and rescue

5 Penitent sinners

6 Women and girls in danger

7 Foundlings and orphans

8 Natural and spurious infants

9 Abandonment, reception and infant mortality

10 Fostering and adoption

11 Foundlings and society

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526100214

1526100215

9781526115034

1526115034

9781526100207

1526100207

OCLC:

980757982