The Kindness of Strangers: the abandonment of children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance Jude Deveraux Drawing on more than a

Drawing on more than a decade of experience as a professor at the Stanford University School of Engineering

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he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished

The Kindness of Strangers: the abandonment of children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance Jude Deveraux Drawing on more than aAuthor: John Boswell Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1988 Condition: Softcover, in very good condition, interior clean In The Kindness of Strangers, John Boswell argues persuasively that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a wide variety of sources, including drama and mythological literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell examines the evidence that parents of all classes gave up