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Darrera modificació: 2012-09-01
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Boswell, John, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, Nova York, Pantheon Books, 1988, xviii + 488 pp.
- Resum
- 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 unwanted children, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the church, or delivering them in later centuries to foundling hospitals. The Kindness of Strangers presents a startling history of the abandoned child that helps to illustrate the changing meaning of family.
Contents:
-- Pt. I: Ancient Patterns
* Rome: the historical skeleton
* Rome: Literary flesh and blood
* Fathers of the Church and parents of children
-- Pt. II: The Early Middle Ages
* Variations on familiar patterns
* A Christian innovation: oblation
* Demographic overview
-- Pt. III: The High Middle Ages
* New demographics: 1000-1200
* Oblation at its zenith
* The thirteenth century: abandonment resumes
* Literary witnesses
-- Pt. IV: The Later Middle Ages
* Continuities and unintended tragedy
-- Conclusions
- Matèries
- Història
Educació
Societat
- Notes
- Trad. it.: L'abbandono dei bambini in Europa occidentale, Milà, Rizzoli, 1991.
Trad. fr.: Au bon coeur des inconnus: les enfants abandonnés de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance, París, Gallimard, 1993.
Trad. esp.: La misericordia ajena, Barcelona, Muchnik, 1999.
- URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=1n8AvQtdYzwC&lpg=P ...
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