Plain Lives in a Golden Age
Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland

This is an account of the ordinary working people of Holland in the seventeenth-century, the so-called 'golden age'.

A. Th. van Deursen (Author), Maarten Ultee (Translated by)

9780521367851, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 August 1991

420 pages, 46 b/w illus.
24.8 x 19.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.77 kg

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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.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]