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Abortion in Early Modern Italy

John Christopoulos

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$51.00 • £44.95 • €46.95

ISBN 9780674248090

Publication Date: 01/01/2021

368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

6 photos

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John Christopoulos is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.

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On the podcast New Books in Early Modern History, listen to John Christopoulos offer a corrective to longstanding views: he finds that Italians maintained a fundamental ambivalence about abortion
At Lapham’s Quarterly, read “Who Knows What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” excerpted from Abortion in Early Modern Italy
Watch Christopoulos present Abortion in Early Modern Italy at an August 2021 online event hosted by the UK’s Society for Renaissance Studies
Listen to an LRB Podcast episode centered on Abortion in Modern Italy that explores abortion in sixteenth-century Italy, the stories of women who experienced it, how it was investigated, and why attitudes to pregnancy 400 years ago were in some ways preferable to those now

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2022 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History

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