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The kindness of strangers : the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance / John Boswell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boswell, John, 1947-1994.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abandoned children--Europe, Western--History.
- Abandoned children.
- Child welfare--Europe, Western--History.
- Child welfare.
- Europe, Western--Social conditions.
- Europe, Western.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 488 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Other Title:
- Abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 1990.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1988.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-473) and index.
- Description based on print version.
- ISBN:
- 9780394572406
- 0394572408
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb01090 hdl
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