TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Abortion in early modern Italy T2 - I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history A1 - Christopoulos, John, 1983- kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press YR - 2021 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5524949 AB - "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 that some might wish to conjure for political ends. When we expand our source base and adjust our methodology with the explicit aim of recovering the thoughts, practices and experiences of as many individuals as possible, we discover attitudes and practices surrounding abortion that are, not unlike our own, far more complicated"-- SN - 978-0-674-24809-0 sidottu KW - 1500-1699 KW - Abortion : Italy : History : 16th century. KW - Abortion : Italy : History : 17th century. KW - Abortion : Moral and ethical aspects : Italy : History. KW - Abortion : Religious aspects : History. KW - Abortion : Law and legislation : Italy : History. KW - Abortion. KW - Abortion : Law and legislation. KW - Abortion : Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Abortion : Religious aspects. KW - Italy. ER -