Employing a rigorous methodological approach and analysing a vast body of sources from towns and regions in Italy, France and England over 300 years, this book hints at the extent of â routineâ infanticide of newborns by married parents in early modern Europe, ignored by contemporary tribunals.
Employing a rigorous methodological approach and analysing a vast body of sources from towns and regions in Italy, France and England over 300 years, this book hints at the extent of â routineâ infanticide of newborns by married parents in early modern Europe, ignored by contemporary tribunals.
Gregory Hanlon is George Munro Chair Distinguished Research Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is a French-trained behavioural historian of early modern Europe and author of ten books to date on disparate themes. Two ground-breaking titles relevant here are Community and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century France (1993) and Human Nature in Rural Tuscany (2003).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Grim reckonings from European archives Part I: Italy 1. Introduction to Italian demography after the Council of Trent 2. Montefollonico: Infanticide by married couples in Early Modern Tuscany 3. Torrita di Siena 1580-1770 or the high cost of cheap food 4. Pavia in Lombardy 1576-1700: The importance of neighbourhood 5. Parma 1500-1800: Girls before boys 6. Mountain demography during the Little Ice Age 7. Three Piacentino towns: Cortemaggiore Fiorenzuola Castel San Giovanni: A terrible synchrony Part II: Southwestern France 8. Introduction to Aquitaine during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries 9. Agen: Aquitaine's complicated second city 1600-1715 10. Sex-selective infanticide in Villeneuve-sur-Lot 1610-1711 11. Infanticide by married couples in Marmande 1605-1711 12. The massacre of the innocents: Routine infanticide in Mézin 1649-1743 13. Layrac 1628-1711: A typical confessionally mixed community 14. Nérac: A Huguenot stronghold in Gascony 15. Bergerac in Perigord Calvinist bastion in Aquitaine Part III: England 16. Infanticide and sex ratios in England 1550-1750 17. Leeds: A sprawling workshop of Western Yorkshire 18. Sex ratios in an idyllic country town: Dorchester Conclusion: Endless possibilities
Introduction: Grim reckonings from European archives Part I: Italy 1. Introduction to Italian demography after the Council of Trent 2. Montefollonico: Infanticide by married couples in Early Modern Tuscany 3. Torrita di Siena 1580-1770 or the high cost of cheap food 4. Pavia in Lombardy 1576-1700: The importance of neighbourhood 5. Parma 1500-1800: Girls before boys 6. Mountain demography during the Little Ice Age 7. Three Piacentino towns: Cortemaggiore Fiorenzuola Castel San Giovanni: A terrible synchrony Part II: Southwestern France 8. Introduction to Aquitaine during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries 9. Agen: Aquitaine's complicated second city 1600-1715 10. Sex-selective infanticide in Villeneuve-sur-Lot 1610-1711 11. Infanticide by married couples in Marmande 1605-1711 12. The massacre of the innocents: Routine infanticide in Mézin 1649-1743 13. Layrac 1628-1711: A typical confessionally mixed community 14. Nérac: A Huguenot stronghold in Gascony 15. Bergerac in Perigord Calvinist bastion in Aquitaine Part III: England 16. Infanticide and sex ratios in England 1550-1750 17. Leeds: A sprawling workshop of Western Yorkshire 18. Sex ratios in an idyllic country town: Dorchester Conclusion: Endless possibilities
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