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Tables of Contents for The Kindness of Strangers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
ABBREVIATIONS
xi
6
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xvii
 
INTRODUCTION
3
48
PART I: ANCIENT PATTERNS
51
130
1. Rome: The Historical Skeleton
53
42
2. Rome: Literary Flesh and Blood
95
43
3. Fathers of the Church and Parents of Children
138
43
PART II: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
181
86
4. Variations on Familiar Patterns
183
45
5. A Christian Innovation: Oblation
228
28
6. Demographic Overview
256
11
PART III: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
267
128
7. New Demographics: 1000-1200
269
27
8. Oblation at Its Zenith
296
26
9. The Thirteenth Century: Abandonment Resumes
322
42
10. Literary Witnesses
364
31
PART IV: THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
395
40
11. Continuities and Unintended Tragedy
397
31
12. Conclusions
428
7
APPENDIX OF TRANSLATIONS
435
28
FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS
463
12
INDEX
475