Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History

Nicoleta Roman is researcher at "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History of the Romanian Academy.

• Introduction (Nicoleta Roman) Part One: In Search of an Identity 1. Orphaned, Abandoned, without a Family: The Establishment and Consequences of the Institution of Slavery (Alessandro Stella) 2. Should abandoned children be baptised? The French case, the 16th to the Early 20th Century (Vincent Gourdon) 3. Constructing a Social Identity. State, Abandoned Children and Family in Mid-19th Century Bucharest (Nicoleta Roman) 4. Italian Assistance Patterns for Orphans in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Giovanna da Molina, Angela Carbone, Annamaria Gaetana de Pinto) Part Two: What Path to Follow? Education or Work? 5. Seminario Soleti: Higher Education for Abandoned Children in Siena in the Early Modern Period (1645-1784) (Tobias Schmidt) 6. The Origin and the Network of the Ottoman Reform Schools (The Islahhanes of 1860s-1870s) (Margarita Dobreva) 7. Children Admitted to Public Care in the Basses-Alpes Department (France) in the Late 19th Century (1874-1904) (Isabelle Grenut) 8. Play, work and petty crime: children on the streets and public spaces of late 19th and early 20th-century Vienna (Maria Papathanassiou) Part Three: Life in Urban and Rural Environment 9. A Foster Placement Project for Abandoned Children from Paris in the Countryside, 1760-1770 (Isabelle Robin) 10. The Children of the Commune: Care of Abandoned Children in Early-Modern Dubrovnik (Rina Kralj-Brassard) 11. Orphaned Children in Bohemian Rural Society in the First Half of the 19th Century. Care, Co-Residence and Inheritance Practices (Markéta Skořepová) 12. Who Should be Placed in the Countryside? Changing Practices of Rural Placement for Abandoned Infants in La Inclusa de Madrid, 1890-1935 (Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios) Conclusions (Nicoleta Roman)