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HIST 150: The Family in Premodern Europe (Spring 2024)

Example Searches

These example searches will show you how to search for books and articles in our databases.

NOTE ON SEARCH TERMS:

If looking at a specific time period, include terms like:

  • "Late Antiquity"
  • Medieval OR "middle ages"
  • "High Middle Ages"

Break down your topic into keywords, than use the boolean above to make them into search phrases
Examples:

  • Abandonment and/or Infanticide
    • (Abandonment OR infanticide) AND children
  • Adoption
    • Adoption
  • Adultery
    • Adulter*
  • Ancient Greece: Family Life
    • "ancient greece" AND family
  • Ancient Greece: Childhood
    • "ancient greece" AND (childhood OR children)
  • Ancient Greece: Marriage
    • "ancient greece" AND marriage
  • Art and Depictions of the Family
    • Art AND depict AND family
  • Baptism, Theology and/or Practice
    • Baptism AND (theolog* OR pratice*)
  • Barbarian Europe and the Family, Fifth to Eighth Centuries
    • Barbarian* AND family AND ("late antiquity" OR "early middle ages")
  • Celibacy/Clerical Celibacy
    • clergy AND celibacy 
  • Celtic Europe and the Family
    • Celtic* AND family
  • Clandestine Marriage
    • "Clandestine Marriages" OR "Secret marriages'
  • Concubines and Concubinage
    • Concubine* OR Concubinage*
  • Consanguinity and the Incest Taboo
    • (Consanguinity OR Incest) and Taboo
  • Conception, Scientific Theories of
    • Conception AND (science OR scientific)
  • Contraception
    • Contraception OR "birth control"
  • Courtly Love
    • "Courtly Love" 
  • The Dati Family
    • "Gregorio Dati" OR ("Renaissance Florence" AND families)
  • The Divorce of Lothar II
    • Divorce AND "lothar II"
  • The Divorce of Henry VIII
    • Divorce AND "Henry VIII"
  • Domestic Violence
    • "Domestic Violence"
  • Ending Marriage: Annulment, Divorce, Separation
    • Annulment OR Divorce OR Separation
  • Family Life in Barbarian Europe (Fifth to Eighth Centuries)
    • family AND barbarian AND europe AND ("late antiquity" OR "early middle ages")
  • Family Life in Carolingian Europe (Eighth-Tenth Centuries)
    • Carolingian AND family AND "early middle ages"
  • Fatherhood in Theory and in Practice
    • Fatherhood AND (theor* OR practice*)
  • Foundling Hospitals
    • "Foundling Hospitals" OR (foundling* AND hospital*)
  • Godparenthood
    • Godparent*
  • Infant Mortality and Death
    • infant AND (mortality OR death)
  • Inheritance Practices
    • Inheritance AND (practice* OR laws)
  • Jewish Family Life
    • "Jewish family"
  • Marriage: the Law
    • "marriage laws"
  • Marriage: Ceremonies and Rituals
    • Marriage AND (ceremon* OR ritual*)
  • Midwives
    • Midwives OR midwifery 
  • Motherhood
    • Motherhood
  • Naming Patterns and Family Names
    • "family names" OR naming OR "naming patterns"
  • Orphanages and Foundlings
    • Orphanage* AND foundling*
  • The Paston Family
    • "Paston Family" OR "William Paston"
  • Polygyny and Monogyny
    • Polygyn* AND monogyn*
  • Property Transfers at Marriage (Dowry, Morning Gift, Brideprice)
    • Dowries OR "morning gifts" OR prideprice*
  • The Protestant Reformation and Family Life
    • ("family life" OR family) AND "protestant reformation"
  • Renaissance Florence and the Family
    • (Florence AND renaissance)  AND family
  • Scandinavian Europe and the Family
    • Scandinavia* AND family
  • Servitude (Slavery. Serfdom) and the Family
    • (Servitude OR slave* OR serf*) AND family
  • Wet nurses and wet-nursing
    • "Wet Nurses" OR "wet-nursing"
  • Widowhood
    • Widowhood OR widows