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
- Adultery
- 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
- Celtic Europe and the 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
- The Dati Family
- "Gregorio Dati" OR ("Renaissance Florence" AND families)
- The Divorce of Lothar II
- The Divorce of Henry VIII
- 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
- Infant Mortality and Death
- infant AND (mortality OR death)
- Inheritance Practices
- Inheritance AND (practice* OR laws)
- Jewish Family Life
- Marriage: the Law
- Marriage: Ceremonies and Rituals
- Marriage AND (ceremon* OR ritual*)
- Midwives
- 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
- 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
- Servitude (Slavery. Serfdom) and the Family
- (Servitude OR slave* OR serf*) AND family
- Wet nurses and wet-nursing
- "Wet Nurses" OR "wet-nursing"
- Widowhood