History 381 Class Project 1996-1997
A Historical Dictionary of Terms in Family History
Students in History 381, Call No. 03010, Winter Quarter, 1996-97, drew up the following
list of
terms and their definitions as part of a class project. Each entry ends with the name of the
contributor.
Abortion
Affinity
Agunah
Alberti, Leon Battista
Amenorrhoea
Annales School
Annullment
Philippe Ariès
Aristotle
Bann
Betrothal
Bilinear Descent
Biological Determinism
Black Death
Brides wealth
Cambridge Group
Canon Law
Celibacy
Chaste Marriage
Consummation of Marriage
Council of Trent
Courtship
Death, Attitudes toward
DeMause, Lloyd
Demography
Dhuoda's Manual
Dispensation
Dower
Dowry
Elite Family in Athens
Ensoulment
Entail
Extended Family
Exogamy
Familia
Family as an Economic Unit
Family, Emotional Life
Family Life Cycle
Family Reconstitution
Family Revolution of 1000
Family, Views of Christ
Family, Views of St. Paul
Frérèche
Gender
Gens
Goody, Jack
Gratian
Greek Mythology and the Family
Henry, Louis
Hetaera
Homosexuality
Household
Infant Mortality
Infanticide
Impartible Inheritance
Impediment
Impotence
Incest
Indissolubility of Marriage
Juvenile
Kin
Laslett, Peter
LePlay, Frederic
Lerner, Gerda
Levirate
Life Expectancy
Luther, Martin
Manus
Marital Strategy
Marriage in the Past
Misogyny
Matriarchy
Matrilinear
Monogamy
Morgengabe
Multiple Family
Nuclear Family
Paston, Margaret
Patria Potestas
Patriarchy
Pedagogic Pederasty
Penitentials
Peter Lombard
Philip I, King of France
Philip II Augustus, King of France
Polyptychs
Porosity
Premarital Sex
Primogeniture
Prostitution
Psychohistory
Reconquista
Reformation and the Family
Resource Polygamy
Sacrament
Saint Paul and Marriage
Separation of Bed & Board
Sippe
Socrates
Spiritual Affinity
Stem Family
Surnames
Talmud
Ultimogeniture
Univera
Virginity
Words of the Future/Words of the
Present