Witte Jr, John <br/><br/>
The Sins of the Fathers   The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered 

 - New York  Cambridge University  2009 
 - 211p 
<br/><br/> includes index and biblioraphy 
<br/><br/>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   
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521839419  4549 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>C93  / W783