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

viii, 408 pp. "An account of the ordinary people of the province of Holland, in the seventeenth-century, Holland's "golden age", and in particular during the eighty years of war with Spain. First published in Dutch as four short volumes, it has been recognised as a pioneering attempt to write a history "from below", based on a mass of contemporary documentary evidence, much of it previously unexplored.... The volume is attractively illustrated throughout with contemporary paintings, engravings and pamphlets." Keywords: HOLLAND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HISTORY EUROPEAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY CULTURE RELIGION SOCIETY