Title Plain lives in a golden age : popular culture, religion, and society in seventeenth-century Holland / A.T. Van Deursen ; translated by Maarten Ultee

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Description viii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface to the English edition -- Part I. Daily Bread: 1. People of little wisdom and limited power -- 2. The attraction of Holland -- 3. Outside the community -- 4. Honest poverty -- 5. Paths upward -- Part II. Popular Culture: 6. Women and girls -- 7. The natural life -- 8. Upbringing -- 9. Popular reading and the supply of news -- Part III. People and Government: 10. The government -- 11. Money -- 12. The community -- 13. The war -- Part IV. Hell and Heaven: 14. Popular belief -- 15. Calvinists -- 16. Catholics -- 17. Mennonites -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Analysis Netherlands Social conditions Notes Translation of: Het kopergeld van de Gouden Eeuw Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-397) and index Subject Immigrants -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century. Popular culture -- Netherlands. Working class -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century. SUBJECT Netherlands -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090982 Netherlands http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78085423 -- Ethnology -- History -- 17th century Netherlands -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091036 LC no. 90001684 ISBN 0521366062 (hardback) 0521367859 (paperback)

Other Titles Kopergeld van de Gouden Eeuw. English

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