Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History

ISBN-13: 9781138071094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 292 str.

Nicoleta Roman

Opis

In a world dominated by poverty, a central characteristic has been the plight of orphans and abandoned children. Over the centuries, State, Church and individuals have all attempted to tackle the issue, but can we trace any change over the course of time when it comes to the welfare system intended for these disadvantaged children and acts of philanthropy? What kind of social policies did States follow and what were the main differences between countries and regions? Drawing on historical evidence across several centuries and a range of European countries, the contributors to this volume provide a transnational overview.

Spis treści

Introduction (Nicoleta Roman) Part One: In Search of an Identity 1. Orphaned, Abandoned, without a Family: The Establishment and Consequences of the Institution of Slavery (Alessandro Stella) 2. Should abandoned children be baptised? The French case, the 16th to the Early 20th Century (Vincent Gourdon) 3. Constructing a Social Identity. State, Abandoned Children and Family in Mid-19^th Century Bucharest (Nicoleta Roman)  4. Italian Assistance Patterns for Orphans in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries (Giovanna da Molina, Angela Carbone, Annamaria Gaetana de Pinto)  Part Two: What Path to Follow? Education or Work? 5. Seminario Soleti: Higher Education for Abandoned Children in Siena in the Early Modern Period (1645-1784) (Tobias Schmidt) 6. The Origin and the Network of the Ottoman Reform Schools (The Islahhanes of 1860s-1870s) (Margarita Dobreva) 7. Children Admitted to Public Care in the Basses-Alpes Department (France) in the Late 19th Century (1874-1904) (Isabelle Grenut) 8. Play, work and petty crime: children on the streets and public spaces of late 19th and early 20th-century Vienna (Maria Papathanassiou)  Part Three: Life in Urban and Rural Environment 9. A Foster Placement Project for Abandoned Children from Paris in the Countryside, 1760-1770 (Isabelle Robin) 10. The Children of the Commune: Care of Abandoned Children in Early-Modern Dubrovnik (Rina Kralj-Brassard) 11. Orphaned Children in Bohemian Rural Society in the First Half of the 19^th Century. Care, Co-Residence and Inheritance Practices (Markéta Skořepová)  12. Who Should be Placed in the Countryside? Changing Practices of Rural Placement for Abandoned Infants in La Inclusa de Madrid, 1890-1935 (Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios) Conclusions (Nicoleta Roman)