Daily life in Rembrandt's Holland
By: Paul Zumthor ; translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Stanford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Netherlands -- Civilization -- 17th century.; Netherlands -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Among the myriad topics covered are homes, gardens, clothing, food, religion, childrearing, education, medicine, sports and games, holidays and celebrations, painters, musicians, writers, the theater, publishing, aristocrats, workers, peasants, the merchant fleet, the armed forces, trading and colonizing companies, fisheries, and the famous Holland dikes"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-323) and index.
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.