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The sins of the fathers : the law and theology of illegitimacy reconsidered
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The sins of the fathers : the law and theology of illegitimacy reconsidered

Author: John Witte
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Witte
ISBN: 9780521839419 0521839416 9780521548243 0521548241
OCLC Number: 294935637
Description: xiv , 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: the paradoxes of illegitimacy -- Suffer the innocent children: illegitimacy in early Judaism and Christianity -- Woe to bastards: the classical Roman law of illegitimacy and legitimation -- The wages of sin: sex, marriage, and illegitimacy in medieval canon law -- Heir of no one: the English common law of illegitimacy and its reforms -- The rights of all children: the new law of non-marital childhood in America and beyond.
Responsibility: John Witte, Jr.

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