Plain lives in a golden age
Subtitle: popular culture, religion, and society in seventeenth-century Holland
By: A.T. Van Deursen ; translated by Maarten Ultee.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Immigrants -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century; Working class -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century; Netherlands -- Social conditions; Netherlands -- Economic conditions
Description: This is an account of the ordinary working people of Holland in the seventeenth-century, the so-called 'golden age'. Professor van Deursen is the most outstanding and gifted scholar at present working on this period of Dutch history. His history 'from below' is based on a mass of contemporary documentary evidence and the text is enlivened by contemporary illustrations. Ranging over a broad spectrum of everyday conditions, sex, marriage, leisure, religion and popular culture, this is the most comprehensive study yet published of the plain lives of a 'golden age'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-397) and index.
Translation of: Het kopergeld van de Gouden Eeuw.