Introduction Nicoleta Roman I. IN SEARCH OF AN IDENTITY Orphaned, Abandoned, Without a Family: The Establishment and Consequences of the Institution of Slavery Alessandro Stella Should Abandoned Children Be Baptised? The French Case, the 16thto the Early 20thCentury Vincent Gourdon Constructing a Social Identity. State, Abandoned Children and Family in Mid-19thCentury Bucharest Nicoleta Roman Italian Assistance Patterns for Orphans in the 18thand 19thCenturies Giovanna da Molina, Angela Carbone, Annamaria Gaetana de Pinto II. WHAT PATH TO FOLLOW: EDUCATION OR WORK? Seminario Soleti : Higher Education for Abandoned Children in Siena in the Early Modern Period (1645-1784) Tobias Schmidt The Origin and the Network of the Ottoman Reform Schools (The Islahhanes of 1860s-1870s) Margarita Dobreva Children Admitted to Public Care in the Basses-Alpes Department (France) in the Late 19thCentury (1874-1904): Modes of Training and Work Placement Isabelle Grenut Play, work and petty crime: children on the streets and public spaces of late 19th and early 20th-century Vienna Maria Papathanassiou III. LIFE IN URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT A Foster Placement Project for Abandoned Children from Paris in the Countryside, 1760-1770 Isabelle Robin The Children of the Commune: Care of Abandoned Children in Early-Modern Dubrovnik Rina Kralj-Brassard Orphaned Children in Bohemian Rural Society in the First Half of the 19thCentury. Care, Co-Residence and Inheritance Practices Markéta Skorepová Who Should be Placed in the Countryside? Changing Practices of Rural Placement for Abandoned Infants in La Inclusa de Madrid, 1890-1935 Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios and 19thCenturies Giovanna da Molina, Angela Carbone, Annamaria Gaetana de Pinto II. WHAT PATH TO FOLLOW: EDUCATION OR WORK? Seminario Soleti : Higher Education for Abandoned Children in Siena in the Early Modern Period (1645-1784) Tobias Schmidt The Origin and the Network of the Ottoman Reform Schools (The Islahhanes of 1860s-1870s) Margarita Dobreva Children Admitted to Public Care in the Basses-Alpes Department (France) in the Late 19thCentury (1874-1904): Modes of Training and Work Placement Isabelle Grenut Play, work and petty crime: children on the streets and public spaces of late 19th and early 20th-century Vienna Maria Papathanassiou III. LIFE IN URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT A Foster Placement Project for Abandoned Children from Paris in the Countryside, 1760-1770 Isabelle Robin The Children of the Commune: Care of Abandoned Children in Early-Modern Dubrovnik Rina Kralj-Brassard Orphaned Children in Bohemian Rural Society in the First Half of the 19thCentury.

Care, Co-Residence and Inheritance Practices Markéta Skorepová Who Should be Placed in the Countryside? Changing Practices of Rural Placement for Abandoned Infants in La Inclusa de Madrid, 1890-1935 Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios lt;/P> Play, work and petty crime: children on the streets and public spaces of late 19th and early 20th-century Vienna Maria Papathanassiou III. LIFE IN URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT A Foster Placement Project for Abandoned Children from Paris in the Countryside, 1760-1770 Isabelle Robin The Children of the Commune: Care of Abandoned Children in Early-Modern Dubrovnik Rina Kralj-Brassard Orphaned Children in Bohemian Rural Society in the First Half of the 19thCentury. Care, Co-Residence and Inheritance Practices Markéta Skorepová Who Should be Placed in the Countryside? Changing Practices of Rural Placement for Abandoned Infants in La Inclusa de Madrid, 1890-1935 Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios amp;repová Who Should be Placed in the Countryside? Changing Practices of Rural Placement for Abandoned Infants in La Inclusa de Madrid, 1890-1935 Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios.