Blood Ties and Fictive Ties : : Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France / / Kristin Elizabeth Gager.
In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally not been practiced in Fr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Many Families of Early Modern Paris
- Chapter 2. Adoption Laws from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
- Chapter 3. The Family and the Neighborhood: Adoptions of Children between Two Households
- Chapter 4. Parisian Charity Hospices and the Care of Orphans and Foundlings
- Chapter 5. The Adoption of Children from the Couche of the Poor Foundlings and the Hotel-Dieu
- Epilogue. Evolutionary Visions of Blood Ties and Adoptive Ties
- Appendix A. Transcriptions of Selected Adoption Contracts
- Appendix B. Information on the Adoptive Parents and Adoptees
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR