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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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