Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History
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.
Nicoleta Roman is researcher at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History of the Romanian Academy.
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Nicoleta Roman
Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries
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Nicoleta Roman
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Contents
PART I
In search of an identity
PART II
What path to follow: education or work?
PART III
Life in urban and rural environment
Figures
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Contributors
Editor
Nicoleta Roman is researcher at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of HistoryRomanian Academy. Childhood history is a research field that she promoted extensively in national and international events organised since 2012. She also conducted two postdoctoral projects on child abandonment in nineteenth-century Wallachia (assisted by a Romanian National Research Council grant) and on the connexion between child labour, education and the formation of a working class in Romania (CERGE-EI grant). Nicoleta Romans last scientific publications include: Dezndjduit muiere n-au fost ca mine. Femei, onoare i pcat n Valahia secolului al XIX-lea (Women, Honour and Sin in Nineteenth-Century Wallachia) (Humanitas, 2016); Living at the Edge of Society: Wallachian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest, in Rescuing the Vulnerable: Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe, eds Beate Althammer, Lutz Raphael and Tamara Stazic-Wendt (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 4973; (as editor), Copilria Romneasc ntre Familie i Societate (secolele XVIIXX) (Romanian Childhood between Family and Society [SeventeenthTwentieth Centuries]) (Bucharest: Nemira, 2015); Le couple contest: Lenlvement dans les process roumains (18001860), in Claude Gauvard and Alessandro Stella (eds) (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2013), 5976. Nicoleta Roman has published articles in academic journals like Annales de Dmographie Historique, The History of the Family and Popolazione e Storia.
Authors
Angela Carbone is professor of modern history at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Her research interests are historical demography, modern history, childhood and welfare history. From her scientific publications, we mention: Esposti e orfani nella Puglia dellOttocento (Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2000); Vita nei Sassi: Famiglia, infanzia e assistenza a Matera in et moderna (Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2005); Tra vicoli e precipizi: Popolazione, societ e istituzioni a Matera nel corso del Settecento (Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2010); Larte tipografica negli orfanotrofi maschili del Mezzogiorno ottocentesco, in Il contributo dei saperi nella formazione, ed. G. Elia (Bari: Progedit, 2012), 361375; Vivere in istituto: Orfani e trovatelli a Reggio Calabria nellOttocento, in Citt e modelli assistenziali nellItalia dellOttocento, ed. Giovanna Da Molin (Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2013), 5574; Angela Carbone and Annamaria Gaetana de Pinto, Dalla prevenzione alla cura: LONMI nella lotta contro le malattie infettive (Puglia, 19251975), in SIDeS, Societ Italiana di Demografia Storica: Per una storia della popolazione italiana nel Novecento, eds Alessio Fornasin and Claudio Lorenzini (Udine: Forum, 2016), 79393.
Giovanna Da Molin is professor of historical and social demography at the University of Bari Aldo Moro and director of C.I.R.P.A.S (Interuniversity Research Center Population, Environment and Health, University of Bari, Foggia and Cosenza). Her scientific publications include: Nati e abbandonati: Aspetti demografici e sociali dellinfanzia abbandonata in Italia nellet moderna (Bari: Caccuci Editore, 1993); (ed.), Senza famiglia: Modelli demografici e sociali dellinfanzia abbandonata e dellassistenza in Italia, secc. XVXX (Bari: Caccuci Editore, 1997); I figli della Madonna: gli esposti allAnnunziata di Napoli, secc. XVIIXIX (Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2001); Famiglia e infanzia nella societ del passato (secc. XVIIIXIX) (Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2008); (ed.), Citt e modelli assistenziali nellItalia dellOttocento (Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2013); Storia sociale dellItalia moderna
