Gregory Hanlon

Death Control in the West 1500-1800

Sex Ratios at Baptism in Italy, France and England

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Produktbeschreibung

Employing a rigorous methodological approach and analysing a vast body of sources from towns and regions in Italy, France and England over 300 years, this book hints at the extent of 'routine' infanticide of newborns by married parents in early modern Europe, ignored by contemporary tribunals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781032267579
• ISBN-10: 1032267577
• Artikelnr.: 64104440

Autorenporträt

Gregory Hanlon is George Munro Chair Distinguished Research Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is a French-trained behavioural historian of early modern Europe and author of ten books to date on disparate themes. Two ground-breaking titles relevant here are Community and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century France (1993) and Human Nature in Rural Tuscany (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Grim reckonings from European archives
Part I: Italy
1. Introduction to Italian demography after the Council of Trent
2. Montefollonico: Infanticide by married couples in Early Modern Tuscany
3. Torrita di Siena 1580-1770
or the high cost of cheap food
4. Pavia in Lombardy 1576-1700: The importance of neighbourhood
5. Parma 1500-1800: Girls before boys
6. Mountain demography during the Little Ice Age
7. Three Piacentino towns: Cortemaggiore
Fiorenzuola
Castel San Giovanni: A terrible synchrony
Part II: Southwestern France
8. Introduction to Aquitaine during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries
9. Agen: Aquitaine's complicated second city
1600-1715
10. Sex-selective infanticide in Villeneuve-sur-Lot 1610-1711
11. Infanticide by married couples in Marmande
1605-1711
12. The massacre of the innocents: Routine infanticide in Mézin
1649-1743
13. Layrac 1628-1711: A typical confessionally mixed community
14. Nérac: A Huguenot stronghold in Gascony
15. Bergerac in Perigord
Calvinist bastion in Aquitaine
Part III: England
16. Infanticide and sex ratios in England 1550-1750
17. Leeds: A sprawling workshop of Western Yorkshire
18. Sex ratios in an idyllic country town: Dorchester
Conclusion: Endless possibilities

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Introduction: Grim reckonings from European archives, Part I: Italy, 1. Introduction to Italian demography after the Council of Trent, 2. Montefollonico: Infanticide by married couples in Early Modern Tuscany, 3. Torrita di Siena 1580-1770, or the high cost of cheap food, 4. Pavia in Lombardy 1576-1700: The importance of neighbourhood, 5. Parma 1500-1800: Girls before boys, 6. Mountain demography during the Little Ice Age, 7. Three Piacentino towns: Cortemaggiore, Fiorenzuola, Castel San Giovanni: A terrible synchrony, Part II: Southwestern France, 8. Introduction to Aquitaine during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries, 9. Agen: Aquitaine's complicated second city, 1600-1715, 10. Sex-selective infanticide in Villeneuve-sur-Lot 1610-1711, 11. Infanticide by married couples in Marmande, 1605-1711, 12. The massacre of the innocents: Routine infanticide in Mézin, 1649-1743, 13. Layrac 1628-1711: A typical confessionally mixed community, 14. Nérac: A Huguenot stronghold in Gascony, 15. Bergerac in Perigord, Calvinist bastion in Aquitaine, Part III: England, 16. Infanticide and sex ratios in England 1550-1750, 17. Leeds: A sprawling workshop of Western Yorkshire, 18. Sex ratios in an idyllic country town: Dorchester, Conclusion: Endless possibilities