Synopses & Reviews
Sacrificed for Honor reveals a shocking and little-known system for the surveillance and control of unmarried mothers and their children that operated in Catholic Europe for nearly three centuries, ending just a century ago.
About the Author
David Kertzer is Dupee University Professor of Social Science and Professor of History and Anthropology at Brown University. He is the author of, among other books, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (Knopf/Vintage), a National Book Award finalist and translated into nine languages, and the forthcoming The Popes Against the Jews (Knopf).