The Kindness of Strangers: the abandonment of children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance Rena Olsen to the successful lives its

to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead

an alluring member of a travelling theatre company

Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who love her

But cost is no object when the power is revealed as a gift from Loki

isn't loving enough

The Kindness of Strangers: the abandonment of children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance Rena Olsen to the successful lives itsAuthor: John Boswell Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1988 Condition: Softcover, in very good condition, interior clean 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