Abortion in Early Modern Italy / / John Christopoulos.
A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy.In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Drawing on portraits of women who terminated—or were forced to terminate—pregnancies, he...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Meanings of Abortion
- 1. Abortion and Women’s Bodies
- Rosana and Giovanni
- 2. Abortion and the Church
- Femia and Antino
- 3. Abortion and the Law
- Maria and Superio
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX