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'. 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'.Van Deursen, A. Th. is the author of 'Plain Lives in a Golden Age Popular Culture, Religion, and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521367851 and ISBN 0521367859.