Abortion in early modern Italy / John Christopoulos.
Abortion in early modern Italy / John Christopoulos.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
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G 2020/5063
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English
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360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: The meanings of abortion -- Abortion and women's bodies: Rosana and Giovanni -- Abortion and the Church: Femia and Antino -- Abortion and the law: Maria and Superio.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2021.
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"Abortion in Early Modern Italy investigates the variety of meanings Italians gave to abortion, and asks how and why these meanings were created, reproduced, modified, and challenged. It shows that early modern Italy was not an absolute and timeless anti-abortion culture, an exemplary "Catholic Italian" and "traditional family" centered society tha...
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Abortion in early modern Italy / John Christopoulos.
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I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-350) and index.
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©2021
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G 2020/5063
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74VKaJkXPZVA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJkXPZVA
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ISBN
0674248090
9780674248090
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362.198880094509031
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991024372500802626
