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The Unwanted Child: The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany
The Unwanted Child The Fate of Foundlings Orphans and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany
Author: Joel F. Harrington
The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society. The Unwanted Child skillfully recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned, neglected, ab...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226317274
ISBN-10: 0226317277
Publication Date: 12/1/2009
Pages: 456
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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