Using a wide range of contemporary sources, Lewis presents a nuanced study into the changing nature of infanticide in Germany over three centuries. Infanticide and abortion were complex crimes with a variety of causes, perpetrators and punishments. These crimes and the reaction to them are placed in the wider context of the of the period.
- | Author: Margaret Brannan Lewis
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Apr 05, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 204 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1848935544
- | ISBN-13: 9781848935549