Plain Lives in a Golden Age
Plain Lives in a Golden Age
Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland
A. Th. van Deursen
Maarten Ultee
Maarten Ultee
August 1991
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st comprehensive study yet published of the plain lives of a 'golden age'.f plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related strands of analysis. First, she discusses the extent to which true plague epidemics may have occurred, by considering what other infectious diseases contributed significantly to outbreaks of 'pestilence'. She finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics. She then sh
- Important book by a major authority available for the first time in English
- Attractively illustrated
- A fascinating contribution to the history of everyday life, to 'history from below'
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August 1991Paperback
9780521367851
420 pages
248 × 191 × 23 mm
0.77kg
46 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 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.
