Pullan Tolerance, regulation and rescue

Dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300–1800
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0020-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pullan, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Pullan Brian:
Brian Pullan is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of ManchesterBrian Pullan is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester