Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland

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ISBN: 9780804722018 | 0804722013
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/1994

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This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past--a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen--to pursue an overseas empire that led to great financial wealth and a highly sophisticated cultivation of the arts. This classic work first appeared in English translation in 1963.

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Introduction	p. XV
The Background of Daily Life	p. 1
The Town: Appearance, Maintaining Order
The Countryside
Highways and Canals
The Dutch Interior	p. 37
The House: Arrangement and Furnishing, Gardens and Flowers
The Toilet: Waking, Washing and Hair-styling, Ways of Dressing
Food: Setting the Table, Dutch Cooking
The Evening at Home
The Course of Life	p. 79
Religion
Children
Education: The Junior Schools, Higher Education and the Sciences
Love Life
Domestic Existence
The Guilds
Sickness and Death: Patients and Doctors, The Art of Medicine, Surgery, From Death-bed to Cemetery
Recreations	p. 162
Sports and Games
Banquets and Drinking-bouts: Traditional Guzzling, Fashionable Beverages, Tobacco
Feast-Days and Holidays: Traditional Celebrations, Kermises
Arts and Letters	p. 193
Fine Arts: Painters, Musicians
Belles-Lettres: 'The Rhetoricians', The Theatre and its Actors, Men and Women of Letters, Books and Publishing
Dutch Society	p. 224
The Power of the Hierarchies: Class Distinctions, Social Exclusiveness
The People: Bourgeoisie, Workers, Seamen, Peasants
Paupers and Criminals
The Armed Forces
Foreigners and Refugees
Holland at Work	p. 266
A Wealthy Country: The Organisation of Wealth, Postal and Information Services, Taxation
Commerce and the Spirit of Adventure
The Fleet: Merchant Service and Navy, Corsairs and Pirates
Trading and Colonisation: The Great Companies, Colonists and Slaves
Industry: Its Shortcomings, The Fisheries
Working the Land: Tilling and Grazing, Dikes and Polders
Conclusion	p. 317
'The Delights of Freedom'
Bibliography	p. 321
Notes	p. 324
Index	p. 345
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