Illegitimacy and New Economy of Life: Single Mothers and Illegitimate Children Between Social Care and Social Control in the Enlightened

Abstract

The study deals with the transformation of the attitude face to illegitimacy in the enlightenede Habsbourg monarchy, and this mainly at the basis of medical (and of medical policy) treatises and judicial court records.

Keywords

• Illegitimacy
• Enlightenment
• Foundlings