Brian Pullan

Tolerance, regulation and rescue

Dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300-1800

• Gebundenes Buch

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: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781784991296
• ISBN-10: 1784991295
• Artikelnr.: 45115808

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