The Sins of the Fathers The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered
- New York Cambridge University 2009
- 211p
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction : The paradoxes of illegitimacy ...1 1 Suffer the innocent children : illegitimacy in early judaism and christianity ...11 2 Woe to bastards : The classical roman law of illegitimacy and legitimation ...49 3 The wages of sin : Ses, marriage, and illegitimacy in medieval canon law ...73 4 Heir of no one : the English common law of illegitimacy and its reforms ...105 5 The rights of all children : The new law of non materital childhood in America and beyond ...135 Concluding reflections ...167 Bibliography ...185 Index to biblical sources ...204 Subject index ...207