Tolerance, Regulation and Rescue - Dishonoured Women and Abandoned Children in Italy, 13001800

Informationen zum Autor Brian Pullan is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Women of lost honour2. Prostitution, sin and the law3. Prostitutes, courtesans and public morality4. Extenuation and rescue5. Penitent sinners6. Women and girls in danger7. Foundlings and orphans: an introduction8. Natural and spurious infants: abandonment and other choices9. Abandonment, reception and infant mortality10. Fostering and adoption11. Foundlings and societyConclusionIndex

Product details

• Authors: Brian Pullan, Brian S. Pullan
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2016
• EAN: 9781784991296
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-129-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Ethical issues and debates