Brian Pullan

Tolerance, regulation and rescue (eBook, ePUB)

Dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300-1800

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526100214
• Artikelnr.: 48795050

Autorenporträt

Brian Pullan is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

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: an
introduction 8. Natural and spurious infants: abandonment and other choices
9. Abandonment, reception and infant mortality 10. Fostering and adoption
11. Foundlings and society Conclusion Index