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Poor women and children in the European past

Title: Poor women and children in the European past / edited by John Henderson and Richard Wall.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Description

xiii, 347 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Family structures and the early phase in the individual life cycle : a southern European perspective / Pier Paolo Viazzo -- Illegitimacy and the abandonment of children in the Basque country, 1550-1800 / Lola Valverde -- 'Perche non avea chi la ghovernasse' : cultural values, family resources and abandonment in the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici, 1467-85 / Philip Gavitt -- Between the home and the hospice : the plight and fate of girl orphans in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Rome / Eugenio Sonnino -- Abandonment of legitimate children in nineteenth-century Milan and the European context / Volker Hunecke -- Mothers at risk of poverty in the medieval English countryside / Elaine Clark -- Women, children and poverty in Florence at the time of the Black Death / John Henderson -- Status of widows in sixteenth-century rural Castile / David E. Vassberg -- Never-married women in town and country in eighteenth-century Denmark / Hans Chr. Johansen -- Household position of elderly widows in poverty : evidence from two English communities in the late eigtteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Thomas Sokoll -- Poverty, the life cycle of the household and female life course in eighteenth-century Corsica / Antoine Marchini -- Transitions into old age : poverty and retirement possibilities in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iceland / Gísli Ágúst Gunnlaugsson and Loftur Guttormsson -- Widowhood and poverty in nineteenth-century Nottinghamshire / Sonya O. Rose -- Avoiding poverty : strategies for women in rural Ireland, 1880-1914 / Joanna Bourke -- Some implications of the earnings, income and expenditure patterns of married women in populations in the past / Richard Wall.

ISBN

0415077168
9780415077163

LCCN

93047314

OCLC

ocm29548948
29548948
SCSB-2036699

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library