Book #123472

The Kindness of Strangers: the Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

John Boswell

Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, 1988.
ISBN: 0394572408

Price: $40.00

An edition in Fine condition with light page edge soiling in a Fine dust-jacket.

The Kindness of Strangers is a book that discusses the abandonment of children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the causes of abandonment, the effects of abandonment on children, and the responses of society to abandonment.; 8vo; 488 pages.